Cindy Milstein

Cindy Milstein is an anarchist activist and educator who talks at various anarchist and socialist gatherings. One such talk was the very informal but in-depth class, "Anarchism 101" at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, at the American University in Washington DC, in 2003 and 2004. (See the NCOR Web site for other talks by Milstein each year, including in the new Radical Theory Track.) Milstein's presentation covers the philosophical roots of anarchism and its evolution to the present, including pre-anarchist ideas of liberty, the anarchist-communist split, and a number of different anarchist philosophies, among other things.

She has also been involved with the Institute for Social Ecology, and is currently a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies and a co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference. Milstein speaks regularly in public, at anarchist conferences and bookfairs as well as radical spaces, including the Finding Our Roots conference, the Unschooling Oppression conference, the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, the Bay Area Bookfair, the New York Anarchist Book Fair, and Left Forum, among others. She most recently worked to help organize A New World from Below: An Anarchist & Antiauthoritarian Convergence at the 2010 United States Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan. Her essays are published in several recent anthologies--"Anarchism and Its Aspirations" (AK Press, 2010), "Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority (AK Press, 2007), Globalize Liberation (City Lights, 2004), Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull, 2004), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004) as well as on the Free Society Collective Web site. She is also a collective member of the all-volunteer Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont.

Since the Occupy movement has started, she has been an active member of Occupy Philly. Early on in the movement, she led Anarchism 101 teach-ins. She has also participated in and helped facilitate direct actions such as the "People's Foreclosure" at Wells Fargo and the resistance to the city's eviction of Occupy Philly's encampment at Dilworth Plaza. In addition, she is a major contributor to Occupy Philly's media website, occupyphillymedia.org.

External links

• Works by or about Cindy Milstein at Worldcat.org