Warcry
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Warcry (also known as Priya Reddy) is a New York City raised and based journalist, environmentalist and anarchist activist. As a child she immigrated with her parents from India to the United States in 1976.
She attended college in the Bay Area, where she first discovered and read the writings of the anarchist organizer Emma Goldman.
In May 1998 Warcry worked with Earth First! in Oregon to preserve and protect old-growth forests from loggers. She joined a tree-sit protest about 200 feet off the ground called Fall Creek. There she met and befriended Brad Will and Jeff Luers. She went on to live and work with Will on a number of video and print projects as part of the NYC Indymedia collective. Luers was arrested and convicted of burning three SUVs in a statement against global warming. In 2001 he was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison. Warcry has become a vocal supporter of Luers and considers his prison sentence to be excessive.
She has organized protests against the WTO in Seattle in 1999, the IMF and World Bank in 2000, the WEF (World Economic Forum) in New York City and the FTAA in Quebec City in 2001, and the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004. She has been a proponent of property destruction and the black bloc tactic at demonstrations.
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- After Quebec, What Next? by John Tarleton May 2001 New York Indypendent
- Keepers of the Flame by Esther Kaplan January 29th, 2002 The Village Voice
- Jeff “Free” Luers was Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Burning 3 SUVs July 17th, 2003 Democracy Now!
- Activists Face Hard Time by L. A. Kauffman June 2001 Free Radical #17
- RNC Update Number Two: Power and Anarchy by Starhawk August 2004
- RNC Update Number 4: Action Bardo by Starhawk August 19th, 2004
- Brad Will gets a loving, raucous, anarchist sendoff by Lincoln Anderson November 15 - 21, 2006 The Villager
