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The official public editor blog of the Center for a Stateless Society.

Good morning, and welcome to 2015! Our first post of the year will be going up at 1 PM central time.


Missing Comma reposted

Like a tidal wave: a case for Agency by @scott_crow: anarchistagency.com/commentary/lik…


Basically, all this to say that Missing Comma supports what @AnarchistAgency aims to do, and I hope to be able to help their work along.


So I believe it's incredibly important that we have groups like @AnarchistAgency. Not just for PR, but for the sociological inquiry.


Despite the mountains of work anarchists have done on their own media outlets, the major media still likes to smear and misrepresent us.


But there is still an interfacing incompatibility.


So the work that anarchist media people have done on our own infrastructure is incredibly, incredibly important.


The alternative media structure anarchists helped create allowed a high school kid in Oklahoma to bridge the 1500-mile gap to Pittsburgh.


And I was around when, during the Pittsburgh G20, indymedia used Twitter to create a real-time ticker of events on the ground.


I turn 23 this month, so I'm too young to remember the Battle in Seattle firsthand. But the archived pirate radio tapes are still there.


The internet has helped a great deal. It has made visible stories that otherwise would have sunk into obscurity.


The media would either miss crucial details of a movement by mistake, which they'd then ignore calls to correct, or they'd maliciously lie.


Behind this drive was an instinctive knowledge that the major media outlets who would most likely cover our events would get shit wrong.


For years and years, anarchists and other radicals have set about trying to build their own media infrastructures.


I am, of course, talking about @AnarchistAgency.


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