I will be giving a talk on community policing and counterinsurgency:
Thursday, April 10, at 5pm
Lecture Hall 2 at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.
The talk is sponsored by Abolish Cops and Prisons.
In related news, on April 4, I gave an interview alongside Luce Guillén-Givins, discussing political repression and the book Life During Wartime. It was broadcast on KFAI’s program Catalyst but is no longer archived at their site.
I’ll be giving two talks in Minneapolis, both relating to Life During Wartime: Resisting Counterinsurgency.
The first is Friday, April 4, 1pm, at the University of Minnesota, Social Science Tower room 614. I’ll be discussing counterinsurgency, community policing, and the role of social scientists in both.
The second is Saturday, April 5, at 4:30pm, at the Minnehaha Free Space (3747 Minnehaha Avenue). I’ll be speaking alongside Luce Guillén-Givins (one of the RNC 8, and a contributor to the book), as well as a couple other local activists.
Or, if you can’t make either of the talks, you can still hear me on the radio. Friday April 4, 9am: I’ll be interviewed on KFAI 90.3fm Mpls/106.7fm St.Paul, online at kfai.org.
Does Frank Miller’s work on Daredevil and Sin City advance a feminist critique of the ideal of chivalry and our standard hero stories?
I make the case at the Hooded Utilitarian.
My two most recent articles both concern issues internal to the anarchist movement.
One is an essay I wrote for Toward Freedom about call-out culture and the effect it has had on organizing in Portland over the past year.
The other is a reflection on leadership, drawing largely from Orwell’s observations of the militia system in revolutionary Spain. Titled “‘Strict Discipline Combined with Social Equality’: Orwell on Leadership in the Spanish Militias,” it appears in the new issue of the Institute for Anarchist Studies‘ journal, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. (Print only; sorry.)