Scott Crow

Scott Crow is an anarchist community organizer and writer based in Austin, Texas. He is one of the founders of Common Ground Collective or Common Ground Relief with Malik Rahim, Sharon Johnson, Lisa Fithian, Kerul Dyer, Suncere Shakur, and Emily Posner, an organization formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to aid and rebuild New Orleans. He is the co-founder of the Texas-based Radical Encuentro Camp an ongoing activist training program.

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Biography

He came under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I) for political activities beginning in the late 1990's, which continued for almost a decade. As of 2006 he is listed as an employee working at a worker run recycling center Ecology Action in Austin, Texas. Crow was the subject of an article in the New York Times, For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target, May 29, 2011.

Film

Crow was the co-producer of a film about the Angola 3, three former Black Panther Party members incarcerated in Louisiana State Penitentiary entitled Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation.[1]

Bibliography

His writings have been published in various radical and leftist magazines, online media throughout the United States and is the co-author, with Sue Hilderbrandt and Lisa Fithian, of "Common Ground Relief" in the 2007 book anthology What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, And the State of the Nation by South End Press. He is the author of the book "Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective" from PM Press.

Sample of his online writing:

References

  1. ^ Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

External links

Anarchism portal