From Anarchist Agency
Original title: Recipients of 2024 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant Program Announced, Memorializing Legacy of Oakland Baker and Social Justice Activist Killed in 2023
Agency, an Anarchist PR Project, Partners with Institute for Anarchist Studies for Second Year to Make Anarchist Ideas Accessible Through Media-Focused Grants
Learn more here: https://anarchistagency.com/jen-angel-anarchist-media-grant/
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Agency, the anarchist public relations organization, announced the recipients of its 2024 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant today. Launched in 2023, in collaboration with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant supports media projects that seek to advance awareness and understanding of anarchist principles and practices and make them accessible to a broad audience.
The four recipients of the 2024 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant include: 1) Oral history interviews with prominent Black anarchists; 2) Web-based resources for anarchist content creators and activists; 3) An audio documentary on the life and work of British anarchist Colin Ward; and 4) A Romanian blackboard animation video production exploring veganism and anarchism.
The Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant was created to honor Jen Angel, the social justice activist, baker, writer, and co-founder of Agency who died on February 9, 2023 as a result of a robbery-assault in Oakland, California. In its second year, the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant awards $2,500 in grants to select anarchist media projects in the United States and abroad.
“Agency created the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant program to help fuel the types of projects that Jen created throughout her life. Our 2024 grants will support projects that reflect the spirit of grassroots and do-it-yourself action that Jen worked so hard to sustain,” said Ryan Only, who co-founded Agency with Jen Angel in 2013. “The core tenets of anarchism that underscored Jen’s life and work—autonomy, mutual aid, voluntary association, direct action—are all amplified by the independent media projects funded by this grant program.”
Agency promotes contemporary anarchist perspectives and practices through commentary on current events, media relations, and educational campaigns. In addition to her work with Agency, Angel was known widely for her prolific activism, her long-standing contributions to independent media, and her role in establishing community institutions throughout her life. Jen Angel was called a “visionary” by Utne Reader and a “pioneering media activist” by Bitch magazine. Her writing appeared in publications such as Bitch, Yes!, Punk Planet, Upping the Anti, and In These Times.
As a teenager, Angel created the zine Fucktooth. Later, she was an editor of Maximum Rocknroll, and was co-founder and publisher of Clamor magazine, an award-winning quarterly magazine covering radical culture and politics. She founded Aid & Abet, a publicity agency established to support progressive authors, filmmakers, activists, organizations, and social movements. Angel also helped organize the Underground Publishing Conference, which later became the Allied Media Conference. At the time of her death, she was a core organizer of the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair and the proprietor of the Oakland, CA bakery Angel Cakes. To learn more about Jen Angel, go to: https://linktr.ee/LovedOnesOfJenAngel.
Alongside Agency, the grant program in Angel’s honor is co-hosted by the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Applications for the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant are accepted through the institute’s long-running grant program, which has supported hundreds of anarchist writing projects. In 2024, the Institute for Anarchist Studies awarded grants to five anarchist literature projects in addition to the media grants. The institute also publishes the Anarchist Interventions book series in collaboration with AK Press and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the print and online journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, the Lexicon pamphlet series, and an Anarchist Imaginations series of books in collaboration with AK Press.
“The Institute for Anarchist Studies has been helping to promote anarchist perspectives, visions, and alternatives for nearly thirty years through our micro-grants to writers and artists. We’re thrilled to be expanding this work to specifically support media projects through our collaboration with Agency on the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant program,” said Hillary Lazar, Institute for Anarchist Studies Board Member.
The 2024 recipients of the Second Annual Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant awarded by Agency and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, are as follows:
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i think it would be more
anon (not verified) Sat, 08/10/2024 - 12:51
i think it would be more appropriate the organizers just wandered around oakland loosely holding wads of cash and "distribute" it based on who in the community takes initiative
more in keeping with the prevailing anarchopacifist politic
Anarchist Federation of Cyber Communes (AFCC)
anon (not verified) Sun, 08/11/2024 - 05:55
Their manifesto:
https://af2c.org/manifesto.html
Not opposed to anarchist internet projects, but the perspective here is a bit naïve about the internet's origins.
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Surveillance+valley
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