Ecowire
I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you...
Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.
Opinion and Analysis
Anarchist News
We’ve Reprinted Work and Expect Resistance
We’ve reprinted two of our classic books, Work (2011) and Expect Resistance (2007). These books still have a lot to offer today and we’re excited to keep them in circulation. If you haven’t read them yet, here is your chance.
Culture
Félix Fénéon: anarchist and aesthetic visionary
As a new exhibition opens in Paris on the enigmatic figure who discovered Seurat, championed Pissarro, and was accused of murdering the French president, Harry Pearson examines the influence of the greatest tastemaker of his generation
What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
I first read “Slaughterhouse-Five” in 1972, three years after it was published and three years before I published my own first novel. I was twenty-five years old. 1972 was the year of inching slowly toward the Paris Peace Accords, which were supposed to end the war in Vietnam, though the final, ignominious American withdrawal—the helicopters airlifting people from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon — would not take place until three years later, at which point, by way of a small footnote to history, I had become a published writer.
Arundhati Roy: ‘We’re lurching into an unknown future, in a blitzkrieg...
I am truly honored to have been invited by PEN America to deliver this year’s Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture. What better time than this to think together about a place for literature, at this moment when an era that we think we understand – at least vaguely, if not well – is coming to a close.
Groundbreaking Science Fiction Author and Editor Michael Moorcock Makes a Rare...
Even if you haven’t read Michael Moorcock, you’ve likely encountered his ideas and influence in the fantastic end of the pop culture spectrum.
‘Office Space’ Is Low-Key a Masterpiece About Unionizing Your Workplace
Mike Judge's classic turns 20 today, and serves as a nice reminder to fight for your rights as a worker.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the old San Francisco, his new novel, and...
Perhaps no living American deserves the honorific “man of letters” more than Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Best known as a poet—his poetry collection A Coney Island of the Mind, first published in 1958, has sold more than one million copies—Ferlinghetti is also a novelist, playwright, publisher, and bookseller. In 1956, he published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems at City Lights Books, which was then, Ferlinghetti says, both a one-room bookshop and a “two-bit poetry press” in San Francisco.
Focus
Uber and Lyft Driver Organizing News and Resources
Drivers for ride sharing companies like Uber and Lyft are organizing and carrying out labor actions, including a strike in early May 2019. Drivers are upset about declining pay, lack of benefits, lack of job security, and efforts to replace them with self-driving cars.
Focus on Labor News
A regular update on labor news from around the world. New unions, ongoing campaigns, strikes, and much more!
Focus on Climate Action
A global grassroots climate action movement is growing and organizing. The world leaders and the nation states keep dragging their feet at this critical time. They aren't doing enough to curb fossil fuel use or capitalism, which is the root of the problem.
After Facebook
If you are like many people these days, you are here because you are looking for alternatives to the large social media companies. We get asked all the time for our suggestions of alternative services that people can't switch to, or, at least minimize the time spent on Big Social Media. We get that you want to stay in touch with friends and family, but you can reduce the time your eyeballs are parked on Facebook and their ilk.
Focus on Disaster Relief
Infosbop News has provided news and resources about disaster relief efforts dating back to Hurricane Katrina. This is our new disaster relief, mutual aid and solidarity portal for past disaster and ongoing situations around the world. It provides news and information about current relief efforts, relief organizations, and info about given situations.
AbolishICE News and Opinion
News, opinion and resources on the AbolishICE movement. Many Americans have organized to oppose Trump regime human rights abuses against migrants and Latino citizens, especially the children who have been kidnapped from their parents and families.
Hurricane Florence and Michael Relief, Solidarity and Mutual Aid Guide
Hurricanes Florence and Michael have devastated many areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia. This guide is for people interested in organizing assistance for those affected and for those interested in supporting people and groups engaged in assistance.
