About

Cindy Milstein (seated at right, even though she’s on the left) is a collective member of Interference Archive (from below!) in Brooklyn (www.interferencearchive.org) and board/collective member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies — focused on projects such as the new Lexicon pamphlet series, the IAS/AK Anarchist Interventions book series, and curating anarchist theory tracks. She is also the author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (IAS/AK Press, 2010) and the picture-essay collaborative book with Erik Ruin titled Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012). Cindy has been overly engaged in numerous collective projects aimed at creating autonomous spaces of resistance, reconstruction, and education, including Occupy Philly, Station 40 in San Francisco, and before that, Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont. She also taught at the “anarchist summer school” called the Institute for Social Ecology, and has long been involved in community organizing and social/political movements from below. Her essays appear in several anthologies, including Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority and Globalize Liberation. When not at home, she travels (frequently) to do public speaking and popular education around topics related to anarchism, direct democracy, anticapitalism, and other political interventions, to encourage critical thought and prefigurative politics, and to do indie media as a sort of anarchist political correspondent/commentator, such as this past spring/summer 2012 during the Quebec student strike in Montreal. She can be reached at cbmilstein@yahoo.com.

To download the Lexicon pamphlet series as PDFs, you can can print, assemble, fold, staple, and distro (for free!) far and wide, head over to http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/ak-tactical-media/ias-lexicon-pamphlet-series/

To order my Anarchism and Its Aspirations book, or other titles in the Anarchist Interventions series by the IAS/AK, click here for the honest-to-goodness version you can hold in your hands: http://www.akpress.org/anarchism-and-its-aspirations.html

or here, for the e-book (still in your hands, but just not as comfy): http://www.akpress.org/anarchismanditsaspirationsebook.html

To get a copy of my collaborative experiment in picture-essays with Erik Ruin, Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, follow this link: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=412

Photo: me, on the right-hand side, at Private, Public, Commons Teach-in at the occupation in Philly, October 22 (photo by Dave Onion).