Worker-run Arts and Culture Journal CAW Launching

For Immediate Release

So-called Philadelphia- A group of accomplished radical authors and writers are excited to announce the launch of CAW, a new journal of arts and culture. CAW is a Collective of Anarchist Writers, a Corvid Appreciation Working Group, it is a crow’s call and a cry of autonomy and freedom with many acronymic meanings!

The journal will be worker-owned and operated, as an alternative arts and media platform for joyful, militant art, community and critique. CAW’s founding members—Shuli Branson, carla joy bergman, Dani Burlison and Vicky Osterweil—have been engaging in creative movement work for over a century between them.

Following in the footsteps of other collectively owned, worker-managed co-ops like 404 Media, Defector and Flaming Hydra, to name a few, and inspired by the anarchist principles of collaboration, creativity-in-action and revolutionary imagining, CAW hopes to bring together essays, reviews, a book club, a zine and sticker library, writing classes, fiction, poetry, podcasts and all the other shiny things we can find!

We are currently crowdfunding at Indiegogo to allow us to operate full time for our first three months of launch. The journal will be on a pay-what-you-want subscription model.

In this era of monopoly and billionaire owned and controlled news and media, and toxic internet spaces and platforms, creatives and writers are forced to compete with one another for attention, subscribers and gigs in an always shrinking media landscape. The emergence of newsletter blogging has only accelerated this trend toward isolation.

CAW is a collective refusal to go along with this pull, using collaboration, mutual aid and autonomy to build a new, sustainable space for radical culture that won't bow-down to profits, bosses or tech platforms.

During moments of crisis and collapse, radicals often focus on news, opinion, theory and reportage. But this land has been in crisis and collapse of one kind or another since 1492, and art and culture have been crucial for creating a sense of belonging, spreading radical ideas, resisting empire, imagining new worlds, connecting us across time and difference and helping us find our murder.

The site is currently in soft-launch, available here with a small preview of all the beautiful things we hope to share. You can also join us on bluesky and instagram (@CAW.ShinyThings)

Email us at CAW.ShinyThings@Proton.me