New interview series with radical journalists!

AUGUST 2019 THIS MONTH AGENCY IS EXCITED TO BRING YOU THE FIRST IN OUR NEW SERIES OF INTERVIEWS WITH JOURNALISTS WORKING IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT ALSO IDENTIFY AS ANARCHISTS AND RADICALS! Our first interview is with Dan Arel, a Southern California-based anarchist activist, award winning columnist, and author. Be sure to keep your eyes open for more interviews as we sit down with journalists to talk about working in media from an anarchist perspective. INTERVIEW WITH JOURNALIST DAN AREL: "If you can't speak the truth, you're not helping inform anyone" Check out our new interview with anarchist activist, journalist and author Dan Arel, where we discussed the ins-and-outs of working in the mainstream media field while also being a radical, why engaging with media matters, and more.   Read the full interview VOICES FROM THE AGENCY NEWSWIRE "A Soccer Game Becomes an Anti-Fascist Demonstration in Portland" (The Nation)  The silence was stunning. Portland Timbers soccer matches are renowned for their raucousness, but the first 33 minutes of the Timbers’ match against their archrivals, the Seattle Sounders, were eerily quiet. No singing, no chanting, no drumming, no signs of the collective joy that typically accompanies their matches. Read more... “Exile from Exarchia” (Slate) When Alireza, a 26-year-old Iranian fleeing political troubles, arrived in Athens, Greece, in August 2018, he had nowhere to go. For the first three weeks, he slept in parks. During the daytime, he went to the refugee camps that have sprung up in Greece over the past decade and asked if they had accommodation. “They said, ‘No, we are full. We can’t do anything. You can register—please write your name. We will call you,’ ” he recalls. “Nearly a year later they haven’t called me yet. The refugee system is a complete joke.” Read more... Shane Burley: Portland Anti-Fascist Coalition Shows Us How We Can Defeat the Far Right The far-right “western chauvinist” street gang known as the Proud Boys is already talking about a follow-up rally next month in Portland, Oregon, following their rally there on Saturday, August 17. Local anti-fascist resistance is growing, however, and anti-fascist activists say they emerged from their counterprotest against the Proud Boys last Saturday with a strengthened and historic coalition of organizations that will continue to make fascism unwelcome in their community. Read more... Arun Gupta: Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence Portland, Oregon is bracing for a storm of far-right violence. In July, Joe Biggs, a former staffer at the far-right conspiracist site Infowars announced an “End Domestic Terrorism” rally in Portland this Saturday. Its aim: the local antifa movement. Biggs, who’s encouraged date rape and punching transgender people, told followers on Twitter to bring guns, declared “DEATH TO ANTIFA!!!!!!”, displayed a spiked weapon saying that it “will be put to good use,” and posted memes about death squads murdering leftists before his account was suspended. Read more... Launch Agency Newswire ANTIFA GRITTY STICKERS We have taken our popular Antifa Gritty t-shirt design and put it on stickers! If you would like a small pack of stickers just order them through the link below and we'll pop them straight in the mail for you. All funds raised go to covering Agency's monthly costs. You can also find us on Patreon and through our website donation page. Thank you for supporting our work! Get Your Gritty Stickers! Copyright © 2019 Agency, All rights reserved.