by B. Dolan When Sage Francis and I created Knowmore.org in 2005, we were young writers and performers with political beliefs and an aim to control and document corporate power. We were musicians with an understanding of journalism, raised in the early hip-hop tradition of radical politics and revolutionary thought. We’d grown up listening to Chuck D snarl: “I like …
Are You Holding Corporations Accountable?
By Chris Faraone In 2021, if you’re of the media-consuming class, you probably know something about how companies like Uber prey on gig workers, and by extension their communities and families. The same goes for some common cultural sentiments toward polluters like BP and behemoths like Amazon, not that any single entity could possibly compare to the latter. We may …
“Connective tissue” and Organizing Energy
Over the past 100 plus years, social movements have often been fighting the same organizations with different names, and some of the same people in different places in time. Those in powerful positions find ways to advance their interest, protect their profits, and continue our exploitation. At one time, they were called the Rockerfellers. Now they’re Elon Musk and Jeff …