Jen Angel's Blog

In December, I plan to open a bakery on 5th Street and Brush in Oakland. My cupcake business, Angel Cakes, has been a catering operation for the last 7 years, renting shared kitchen spaces around Berkeley and Oakland. Silly as it sounds, cupcakes allow me to support myself and allow me to participate in a […]

Clamor Magazine was a huge and significant part of my life. Not only did a spend seven years working on it, but it shaped my life, friendships, and politics more than I could have imagined. I’ve been working for the last year to make the content of the magazine available digitally, and I kind of […]

Reblogged from bayareaintifada: Posted on Anarchist News The article written by Anon is a misunderstanding of how things went down in Oakland over those three days and how locally anarchists and other militants interact more generally in the streets. The play by play put forth by Anon is an informative account but most of the analysis […]

Reblogged from Hyphenated-Republic: Volumes have already been written about the protests in Oakland that exploded after the Zimmerman verdict on Saturday, July 13. I won't delve deeply into some of the so-called “controversies”, because they are political constructs created by city officials and OPD. Trying to camouflage their own complicity in maintaining the system of […]

Reblogged from The Portland Radicle: by Mike Klepfer Jake Conroy and Josh Harper are two former prisoners. Part of the animal rights campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), the two were engaged in an international effort against the private animal experimentation laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), which drew activist ire after undercover video showed HLS […]

Reblogged from Kissing in the Dark...: On February 26th 2013 neighborhood watch fascist George Zimmerman shot and murdered 16 year old black youth trayvon martin. Over four months later on July 13th 2013 Zimmerman was found not guilty of the murder he did indeed commit, and was acquitted of all charges of manslaughter by a […]

Accounting for Ourselves – A Review and Interview How do restorative and transformative justice processes work in practice? In April, the anarchist collective CrimethInc published a new pamphlet critiquing accountability processes and suggesting ways forward. “Accounting for Ourselves” is not an introduction to accountability processes, nor to the concepts of restorative or transformative justice, but […]

It has only been in the last few years that I have really begun to understand the grand jury system in the United States. I kind of always knew they were out there, and that they impacted my communities, but I didn’t really know how they worked or how terrible they could be. Several recent […]

I haven’t posted for a while, but I wanted to make my annual “here’s where I’m donating money this year.”  Though I am an anti-capitalist, I have long believed that our lack of understanding of and engagement with money on the Left has and continues to hurt our organizing. Of course it’s complicated, but it [...]