Hello Friends and co-conspirators,

I want to celebrate something with you. Last month, the directory reached 94 countries. In nearly half the countries on earth, there are people like you and me, trying to build something better for all life and struggling to bring that world into being.  When this started, it was a short list of spaces a few of us happened to know about. Now we can look at the map and find each other almost anywhere. 

When I read through new listings and see what people are building in places I will never visit, it moves me. It gives me something for the work I am doing in my own small corner of the world. I know that feeling is not only mine, because over the years many of you have written to tell me the same thing. You found a space, or a project, or a group of people three countries away, and it reminded you that you are not doing this alone.

This is what we are up against. The systems we live under survive by keeping us convinced that we are alone, that the people we would organize alongside are out of reach or were never there at all. A map with 94 countries on it is an answer to that lie. We are not alone, and now we can prove it to each other.

None of this came from us alone. It grew because someone decided their space belonged on the map, and someone else shared it, and someone after that used it to find their way to people they had never met. That is what finding each other actually looks like. In all of these places, people are organizing and holding one another up, and that is what the rest of this newsletter is about.

You are part of all of it. Thank you for being here.

Here is what has been happening since the last newsletter.

A Radical World

The map can show you that a place exists. It cannot tell you what happened there or who came before and made it possible.

Behind almost every listing is a history, and we have been collecting those histories for years. Most of them have never been told.

 We are starting to tell them now, in a new series called A Radical World. Every other week, it tells the story behind a place on the map. We built the directory to help each other find one another across the world. These histories are how we find the people who came before us. 

The first one opens with a music scene in working-class Britain and then follows it into a fight that is still going on today, in places on the map right now.  

Read the first post: The Scene Was Never Just a Scene

A Birthday Match

Right now, your support can go twice as far. Someone has offered to match every new monthly donation, dollar for dollar. Start a monthly gift of $10 and it becomes $20. Whatever you give, it doubles.

The match is open until July 11, which happens to be my birthday. If becoming a monthly co-conspirator is something you have been thinking about, this is a good moment to do it.

Mutual Aid General Fund: May Recipient

In May, the Mutual Aid General Fund went to Sacramento Homeless Union, a union of unhoused and formerly unhoused people organizing alongside their own community in Sacramento, and a chapter of the National Union of the Homeless. 

Sacramento Homeless Union on ABC10 News

Their work ranges from the daily basics like food and blankets to helping people navigate the offices, paperwork, and denials that stand between them and stable housing.

Right after the fund reached them, on June 1, the City of Sacramento's shelter and transitional housing system collapsed. Residents who had been placed in motels and shelters were told to leave in the morning and come back later, then turned away when they returned. Others were sent to hotels that would not honor the vouchers they had been given. A trailer park was cleared with two days' notice. By the end of it, families, children, elderly and disabled residents, and people fleeing violence had nowhere to go, some of them in parking lots overnight.

Sacramento Homeless Union was in the field through all of it, into the early morning, documenting what happened and getting people what support they could. That is what the Mutual Aid General Fund is for. It moves support to the people already doing the work on the ground, in the moments when the systems meant to help fall apart.

Residents and the Sacramento Homeless Union describe that day in their own words in this local news segment.

On the Map in May

We added nine new listings to the directory in May, with locations in Algeria, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. 

Featured: Grave of Montague 'Monty' Miller — Perth, Australia

 Born in Tasmania in 1839, Monty Miller came up through the Victorian goldfields and the 1854 Eureka rebellion. A carpenter by trade, he became a militant unionist and a revolutionary anarchist. He settled in Perth and, late in life, threw in with the Industrial Workers of the World, arguing for industrial unionism, direct action, and the common ownership of land and capital. During the First World War, he toured the country against conscription and was convicted twice for it, released both times, the second only because of his age. 

He kept at it until he died in Perth in 1920. A future prime minister, John Curtin, said no one had done more for the Australian labor movement. 

Miller asked that his family grave be left unmarked, and for nearly ninety years it was. Only in 2009 did labor historians, the National Trust, and their descendants add a small plaque with the names and dates of those buried there. He rests at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, a man who spent his life refusing the state's authority and wanted no monument when it was over.

All May additions:

• Confederación Nacional del Trabajo – L'Hospitalet de Llobregat — Spain
• Veggies Catering Campaign — Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Passionate Politics — London, United Kingdom
• Rebel Reads — Cork, Ireland
• UFFA (Ungdom for fri aktivitet) — Trondheim, Norway
• Grave of Errico Malatesta — Rome, Italy
• Catalyst Social Centre — Coburg, Australia
• Grave of Frantz Fanon — Aïn Kerma, Algeria
• Grave of Montague 'Monty' Miller — Perth, Australia

Resist Project 2025

 Last month the Trump administration released its 2026 counterterrorism strategy, which names anarchists and trans organizers as national security threats and calls for their "rapid identification and neutralization." None of this is new. The state has been naming resistance as terrorism since the Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903, through the COINTELPRO years, and into the present. 

Our latest piece traces that history and the legal precedent being built right now to enforce it. It also makes the case that the state is trying to name as terrorism is exactly the organizing worth doing. This is part of our ongoing work tracking Project 2025 and the rise of fascism in the United States. 

Thank you for reading.

The map reached 94 countries because people kept adding to it, one place at a time. If there is a place near you that belongs on it, reply and tell me about it. That is how we find each other. Every reply comes straight to me, and I follow up on every one.

P.S. The birthday match runs until July 11. Start a new monthly gift before then, and it doubles. Become a monthly co-conspirator