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The defenestrator is Philly's sporadic newspaper for resistance, creative revolution, and action. To defenestrate Power means total refusal of its tools and tentacles. Like the Hussites who had their oppressors thrown down from the Prague castle into the angry mob below, the defenestrator wrestles power and privilege from its highest and most protected strongholds and casts the beast out of the window and down into the angry hands of the people.

The defenestrator doesn't adhere to a strictly defined ideology, but we generally derive our ideas from an anarchist or autonomist tradition, which proposes a revolutionary transformation of society, the abolition of property and of all hierarchies and coercive power.

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The defenestrator is anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, non-religious and focussed on class struggle. Think of readers as people like yourself who are interested in grassroots struggle, directly-democratic, non-hierarchical processes, direct action for social change, etc. Don’t talk up or down to your audience. Writing should be accessible, but not simplistic (as with revolutionary struggles, it’s important to consciously grapple with the complexities of the issues). Your perspective on the issue is important. It’s your voice.

We are looking for local news and events, columns, features articles, reviews of various media, interviews, prose and poetry. If you have photography or art that can accompany your piece, please send it along in a high-resolution jpg format. In general we are looking for pieces that are 1,500 words or less. If you have a longer submission, contact us first to make sure that it will be a good fit for our editorial guidelines.

Submit an essay: dan@defenestrator.org

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The defenestrator's audience represents an emerging movement of radical Philadelphians and incarcerated persons organizing and agitating for social transformation to end all coercive power. This participatory group of creative and intelligent people works within the local community to build a better world tomorrow.

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