Last month I spoke on a panel organized by the Platypus Society, about the state of Left politics and what we should be doing.
Russian Translations (April 2024)
ZNet is hosting a number of my articles, translated into Russian. They include essays on activism, policing, counterinsurgency, torture, and George Orwell.
Apparently in Russian my name looks like this: Крысціян Уільямс
Translated back into English: Krystsiyan Williams
I will now accept either as acceptable spellings.
Panel Talk at OSU (April 2024)
The amusingly-named Platypus Society is hosting a panel talk at Oregon State, and I’m going to be on it.
FROM POLITICS to PROTEST?
Since 2020, the Left has undergone a transformation in organizing and self- conception. With the end of the Bernie Sanders movement, the lifting of COVID restrictions, and political disorientation under the Biden administration, horizons for the contemporary Left have shifted to street politics, taking up popular discontents with racism, climate change, and American foreign policy. This recalls images of the past–not only of the Late 60s and 70s, but the early moments of the Millennial Left, born out of Occupy, the Anti-War Movement, and the shadow of Anarchism in the 80s and 90s.
How have the politics of protest been impacted by the Biden administration and the looming specter of Trump? Are the horizons of possibility for the Left today greater than they were ten years ago?
THU APR 25
@6pm Strand Hall 163
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Doug Lain //Sublation Media
Rajeev Ravisankar//GTFF-AFT Local 3544
Randy Taylor//Industrial Workers of the World
Kristian Williams //author of Whither Anarchism? and Gang Politics
panel discussion
To request accessibility accommodations contact platypussociety@oregonstate.edu
Hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society @ OSU
Arresting Power — March 2024
The film Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon is showing:
Thursday March 21 at 7pm
2522 SE Clinton Street, Portland, OR 97202.
It is part of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Policing Justice series.
I was interviewed for the film, and have a brief appearance.
