Warcry (activist)
Warcry (born Priya Reddy) is an
Life and work
As a child, Warcry emigrated with her parents from
Will, Luers and Earth First!
In May 1998 Warcry worked with Earth First! In an ancient forest defense campaign in Oregon to preserve and protect old-growth forests from loggers. She met and befriended activists Brad Will and Jeff Luers at a tree-sit protest.[1] It was here she adopted her sobriquet, as a conscious response to hippie-like tree-sitters such as Julia Butterfly Hill.[2] Initially grounded due to her inability to climb, Warcry spent three weeks living on a platform neighboring Will's,[2] and went on to live and work with Will on a number of video and print projects. Warcry and Will both worked with the NYC Indymedia collective until May 2001. In 2000 Luers was arrested and convicted of burning three SUVs in a statement against global warming and in 2001 was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison.[3] Warcry has become a supporter of Luers and considers his prison sentence to be excessive, along with the Eugene Human Rights Commission, and several others including Howard Zinn. Warcry gives an explanation of Luers' action in her essay "Burning To Breathe Free".[4]
Media activism
Warcry is an advocate of "democratizing corporate controlled media" and has worked with MediaChannel.Org and other media watch dog and free speech advocacy groups to organize a democratic media movement in the U.S. She was involved with the
Protest organization
Warcry has organized protests against the
Media appearances
- Breaking the Spell (film)(1999)
- This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000)
- Peterson, M'chelle (2001-04-02). "Free-trade protesters find roadblock at border". The Press Republican.
- "Keepers of the Flame", The Village Voice 2002
- Jeff "Free" Luers was Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Burning 3 SUVs Democracy Now!, July 17, 2003
- "What It Looks Like...the Final Frames". Esquire. 2007-06-16. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
References
- ^ Anderson, Lincoln (November 2006). "Brad Will gets a loving, raucous, anarchist sendoff". The Villager. 76 (26). Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ Rolling Stone(1044). Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ Kauffman, L.A., "Activists Face Hard Time", Free Radical, issue 17, June 2001
- ^ Warcry "Burning to Breathe Free".
- ^ Usaviour (2005-04-14). "Black Waxx tackles censorship and racism". Worker's World. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
- ^ Warcry, The Revolution Next Door
- ISBN 978-0-86571-446-5.
- ^
Warcry, Warcry. "My Big Fat Greek Riot". Infoshop News. Archived from the originalon February 9, 2012. Retrieved 2008-03-03.