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Cindy Milstein is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, coorganizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, and author of Anarchism and Its Aspirations (IAS/AK Press, 2010) and the forthcoming collaboration with Erik Ruin Paths toward Utopia: Explorations in Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, spring 2012). She has been overly engaged in numerous collective projects aimed at creating autonomous spaces of resistance, reconstruction, and education, including most recently, 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, now in her new home of West Philly, 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. She can be reached at cbmilstein@yahoo.com, although right now, because she’s joyfully throwing herself into the occupation at Philly and the first living, breathing example of self-governance she’s ever been honored to be a participant in with so many wonderful, diverse people, she’s extra bad about returning emails.

 

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