Hyperallergic, “The Museum of Capitalism Isn’t Buying Our Prevailing Economic Model”
Ressler’s piece is comprised of 16 videos occupying a large room and an adjacent wall. Each video features an interviewee plainly describing some non-capitalist system of organization, such as anarchist consensual democracy, inclusive democracy, caring labor, or workers’ collectives during the Spanish Revolution. These videos resemble the dry but informative educational videos found in any […]
Vice, “Pussy Riot’s Latest Project Turns Buildings Into Protest Art”
VICE: How did your latest work, No Riot No Pussy, come about? Nadya Tolokonnikova: Well, anarchists in Chicago approached me and asked if I wanted to work with them. They saw my previous work in 2008 when we projected a pirate flag onto the Russian White House. As they wrote to me, it was like Chicago […]
The Village Voice, “‘Julius Caesar’ Unleashes Right-wing Rage at Art, Liberals, and NYC”
“This is the fault of the left,” said a local board of supervisors chairman; Trump cheerleader Carl Higbie blamed “the Democratic Party, led by Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, my home-state U.S. senator Chris Murphy” and “this childish, anarchist #Resist movement.” “A Virginia poll watcher” even told Boyer “she was spit upon and cursed at by […]
Bedford + Bowery, “‘Catholic Anarchist’ Dorothy Day Returns to the East Village Via an Art Show”
“We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists [of conspiring to do], but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.” Continue Reading
Vice, “At the Drive-In Turned Me into a Border-Hating Communist”
The music was a roadmap that lead me to study fronterizo anarchists like Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón, communist chicana union organizers like Emma Temayuca, the Gorras Blancas‘s resistance to white settler-colonists in New Mexico, the defiant Texas-based Raza Unida Party… These were all voices that grew from the division of the US-Mexico border and […]
The Village Voice, “Nova Ruth Wants To Free Us From The Bondage Of Wage Slavery”
Emerging out of the Seattle-based agit-pop underground in the 1990s, Filastine formed the anarcho-punk dance theater group Tchkung! then the multiculti marching band Infernal Noise Brigade, making the latter a strategic participant in protests at the 2000 IMF Meeting in Prague, the 2004 US Republican Party National Convention in New York, and the G8 Summit […]
Riverfront Times, “Chavisa Woods’ Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country Leads Readers Deep into Rural America”
Woods was also an early resident of C.A.M.P., a south city anarchist collective still in existence today. Even then she was already seriously pursuing writing, choosing to work part-time whenever it was feasible in order to dedicate time and energy to her craft. “That means I have made less money than I could have, and […]
The New York Times, “Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling)”
The Living Theater, founded and run by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, was the legendary mother of us all. Founded in 1947 in New York as a European-style art theater, the Living (as it was known) soon morphed into one of the most politically radical and boldly adventurous theaters in American history. Its productions of […]
Star Tribune (Twin Cities), “Walker Art Center postpones sculpture garden opening after ‘Scaffold’ protests”
“Scaffold” references seven U.S. state-sanctioned gallows executions, including the hanging of 38 Dakota in 1862 in Mankato, the Haymarket gallows hanging of four anarchists in 1886 and the 1936 public hanging of 26-year-old black man Rainey Bethea, among others. Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Celebrating Carmelita Maracci, Who ‘Took the Girdle Off Ballet’”
To the end, Ms. Maracci never lost her hostility toward what she felt was the constricting conformity of the dance establishment. Long after she stopped performing she wrote to Ms. de Mille: “I’m more of an anarchist than ever. I could never have danced as I did if I had been an obedient servant.” Continue […]