Scott Crow

scott crow is an international speaker, author, media commentator, musician, and story teller who is proudly from a working class background. He has engaged his varied life as a coop business co-owner, political organizer, educator and strategist, activist, filmmaker and dad. For over three decades he has focused on diverse socio-political issues and the explorations of creating and exercising counter-power to capitalism, Power and unsustainable civilization. Find him at www.emergencyhearts.com or www.scottcrow.org

He is the author and editor of 'Setting Sights: Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense' (PM Press 2018) 'Emergency Hearts, Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader' (GTK Press 2015) and the critically acclaimed book 'Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective' (PM Press 2nd ed. 2014), named as NPR's 'Top Summer Reads 2015' and Progressive Magazine's 'Top Books 2011'. Black Flags and Windmills has been translated into Spanish and Russian language editions.

He contributed to the seminal books 'Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab', 'Witness To Betrayal', 'Black Bloc Papers' and 'What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation' and he was a featured subject in the books 'The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement' by David Naguib Pellow, and 'Surveillance in America: Critical Analysis of the FBI, 1920 to the Present' by Ivan Greenberg.

He has appeared frequently in international media attention, as commentator and subject including the New York Times, NPR, Der Spiegel, CNN, RT News, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Democracy Now! and VICE as well as the documentary films Informant, Better this World, A Frayed, Welcome To New Orleans and American Totem. In 2008 he co-produced, with Ann Harkness, a documentary film Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation (PM Press).

During the late 80's and early 90's scott was a singer in the political electro-industrial bands Lesson Seven and Audio Assault. Lesson Seven had a minor 12" dance club hit 'Radiation' on Oak Lawn Records and their song 'Arise' was produced by Information Society. Lesson Seven toured with Skinny Puppy on their 1988 VIVI Sect VI tour, and with Nine Inch Nails in 1990 and 1991 on their Hate tours as well as performed with Ministry, Swans, Clan of Xymox, Laibach, Meat Beat Manifesto, Weathermen, Front Line Assembly, Revolting Cocks, Psychic TV, Die Warzau, Information Society, Consolidated and many other seminal industrial and electronic bands. Audio Assault had tracks produced by MC 900 ft. Jesus. Both bands appeared on the Dallas radio station KDGE's Tales From the Edge compilations.

From the late 1990s until at least 2010, scott was under intense investigation and surveillance for his political activity by the FBI in nine states related to animal rights and radical environmental issues. Labeled as an alleged "domestic terrorist" for political activities, no charges were brought. In 2011 his case became international front page news, becoming a precursor to the wider unveiling of the US governments spying on political activists and citizens which was later revealed in 2013.

He currently runs a collaborative media hub/ record label eMERGENCY heARTS and a small private art business Century Modern, and is an occasional media commntator with anarchist public relations firm Agency.