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		⚫	==Infoshop.org==
		⚫	Munson founded ], a popular anarchist website,<ref>"Making the News: Anarchist Counter-Public Relations on the World Wide Web". Lynn Owens and L. Kendall Palmer. ''Critical Studies in Media Communication''. Vol.20, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 335-361. "Run predominantly by an individual anarchist activist in Washington D.C., ] offers frequently updated features on contemporary activism and social struggles"</ref> in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.<ref name=alas>"", Infoshop.org, ].</ref> Munson had been working as a system librarian at ], one of the perks of which was a free web account. Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the ], in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998.<ref name=alas/> Munson reorganized the website as a collective project in 2001, and it is currently run by a core of seven people, supplemented by regular writers and volunteers.<ref name=alas/>

			== Thought ==
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			Munson considers anarchism to be the only sustainable way forward for humanity, claiming that "raditional political ideologies have led the planet to ruin (] and ]) or have prevented freedom (authoritarian ])."<ref name=why>
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		⚫	</ref> He considers anarchism to be a ] political moevemnt, not limited to a "linear history of ideas".<ref name=why/> Although he identifies as an ] and describes himself as "an anarchist who is open-minded about anarchist ideas",<ref name=why/> Munson rejects the notion that ] is a form of anarchism, citing its lack of opposition to "the hierarchical authoritarian capitalist workplace".<ref>
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⚫	==Infoshop.org==
⚫	Munson founded ], a popular anarchist website,<ref>"Making the News: Anarchist Counter-Public Relations on the World Wide Web". Lynn Owens and L. Kendall Palmer. ''Critical Studies in Media Communication''. Vol.20, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 335-361. "Run predominantly by an individual anarchist activist in Washington D.C., ] offers frequently updated features on contemporary activism and social struggles"</ref> in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.<ref name=alas>"", Infoshop.org, ].</ref> Munson had been working as a system librarian at ], one of the perks of which was a free web account. Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the ], in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998.<ref name=alas/> Munson reorganized the website as a collective project in 2001, and it is currently run by a core of seven people, supplemented by regular writers and volunteers.<ref name=alas/>

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==

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Chuck Munson (born 1965) is an American anarchist in Kansas City, Missouri who currently runs the Alternative Media Project, Infoshop.org (an anarchist website), and a weblog, "another blog is possible." He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting/Sculpture) from University of Kansas in 1988 and his Master of Arts in Library Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.

Activism

Munson is active on many issues, ranging from media activism to prisoner rights to anti-globalization. He got his start as an activist at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) in the mid-1980s, helping organize protests against apartheid in South Africa and U.S. government intervention in Central America. At one point he was the president of the K.U. Committee on South Africa.

He has been involved with other anarchists in the anti-globalization movement. In 2000, he helped organize the follow-up protests in Washington, DC against the World Bank and IMF meetings ("A16"). In 2001, he helped found the Anti-Capitalist Convergence-DC, which organized protests against the World Bank and IMF in September 2001. Munson is active in the Indymedia movement, having been involved with the Global Indymedia website; Washington, D.C. IMC; and the current Indymedia project in Kansas City.

He was a co-founder of the Mutualaid.org ISP.

He is involved as an activist in the library profession on issues such as intellectual freedom, alternative media, and censorship; he ran two shortly-lived online projects, Stop Filtering and Censorware in Libraries and Anarchist Librarians Web in the late 1990s, and in 2004 was one of the founders of the Radical Reference project.

Munson was interviewed for The New York Times during the Republican Party political convention in New York City, published August 29, 2004. Comparing anarchism to other radical movements, Munson said,

... we are a lot more anti-government, anti-state. We say that because we think people should have control of their lives at the individual and community level, a sort of radical participatory democracy." Asked about violence he replied, "I subscribe to a diversity of tactics, so I don't disavow violence. But I like to see nonviolence as much as possible."

Infoshop.org

Munson founded Infoshop.org, a popular anarchist website, in January 1995 as the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. Munson had been working as a system librarian at University of Maryland-College Park, one of the perks of which was a free web account. Having previously co-founded an online archive of anarchist texts, the Spunk Library, in 1992, Munson established Infoshop as a general resource on anarchism, moving to the domain name Infoshop.org in 1998. Munson reorganized the website as a collective project in 2001, and it is currently run by a core of seven people, supplemented by regular writers and volunteers.

Thought

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Munson considers anarchism to be the only sustainable way forward for humanity, claiming that "raditional political ideologies have led the planet to ruin (capitalism and imperialism) or have prevented freedom (authoritarian communism)." He considers anarchism to be a syncretic political moevemnt, not limited to a "linear history of ideas". Although he identifies as an anarchist without adjectives and describes himself as "an anarchist who is open-minded about anarchist ideas", Munson rejects the notion that anarcho-capitalism is a form of anarchism, citing its lack of opposition to "the hierarchical authoritarian capitalist workplace".

Publications

He has edited or published several zines and magazines, including Praxis (Lawrence, Kansas, 1980s), The Gentle Anarchist (Lawrence, Kansas, 1986-88), The Journal of Disjunctive Librarianship (Madison, Wisc., 1990), Practical Anarchy (1991-present), and Alternative Press Review (1997-2002). In 1992, he co-founded the Spunk Library along with Mikael Cardell, Jack Jansen, and Ian Heavens. The Spunk Library is an online collection of anarchist and alternative texts, and one of the first digital archives of any kind. In 1992 Munson, along with Cardell, started Practical Anarchy Online, which was one of the first e-zines during its brief existence. Munson has also contributed to CounterPunch.

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Activism

Infoshop.org

Thought

Publications

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