Category Archives: Essays
Paths toward Utopia: Asserting the Commons against Enclosures
Workshop presented at the Mobilizing and Organizing from Below Conference in Baltimore, MD, June 1-3, 2012. For more coverage, go to http://indyreader.org/mobconf.
Paths toward Utopia: YouTube Explorations of Everyday Anarchism
I can’t vouch for this YouTube rendition of the Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012) presentation that Erik Ruin and I did about our book … Continue reading
The Gift
[Text from Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012), a collaborative book of picture-essays by Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin, with a foreword by Josh MacPhee, … Continue reading
The Shades of Love
The following essay was written for the anthology Revolutionary Love Letters (Minor Compositions, forthcoming in 2013), edited by Jamie Heckert, who kindly and lovingly gave me permission to share it … Continue reading
“Occupy Anarchism”: Musings on Prehistories, Present (Im)Perfects & Future (Im)Perfects
I wrote the following essay for the anthology We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation (AK Press, 2012), edited by Kate Khatib, Margaret Killjoy, and Mike … Continue reading
“Occupy Anarchism”: An Excerpt (for Now)
A whole big bunch of us radicals-who-write are bound together in the new anthology We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, edited by Kate Khatib, Margaret … Continue reading
Reappropriate the Imagination!
(Note: This essay originally appeared in Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority, edited by Josh MacPhee and Erik Reuland [AK Press, 2007]). *** An art exhibit, albeit a small one, … Continue reading
Deciding for Ourselves
[Text from the forthcoming Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press), a collaborative book of picture-essays by Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin] * * * On the … Continue reading
Anarchism
“Anarchism” by Cindy Milstein is available as a downloaded PDF as part of the Lexicon Series created by the Institute for Anarchist Studies (Anarchiststudies.org), along with four other titles (and … Continue reading
May Day Matters
Every since this occupy “movement” began, it has surprised me. Like a package I didn’t order appearing on my doorstep, gifting me some sweet little zines written by a near … Continue reading
