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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. In 2004 he 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."

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.

Articles

• “What do radical librarians do? or, Which way to the black bloc?” in Revolting Librarians Redux: radical librarians speak out. edited by Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West. North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2003.
• “WIPO: Have We Been Whipped by New Copyright Treaty?” Internet Trend Watch for Libraries, vol.2, no.4, April 1997.

References

1. Kirn, Walter (2000-04-16). "The New Radicals". TIME. Retrieved 2008-02-26. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
2. "another blog is possible » about chuck". chuck.mahost.org. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
3. Archibold, Randall C. (2004-08-29). "Ideas & Trends -- Heartland Radical; Anarchy Explained". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-26. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
4. Munson, Chuck (2004-11-30). "Seattle Weekly Trashes Anti-Globalization Movement". CounterPunch. Retrieved 2007-07-31. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

• Another Blog is Possible, the blog of Chuck Munson
• Infoshop.org
• Spunk Library
• Radical Reference

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