1000 Voices

1000 voices is a publishing platform and a tool for encounter. Taking the spoken word as the basis of our publications, we work to transmit and translate conversations about people’s lives in struggle across the planet.

hand painted banner hangs in the trees of the Weelaunee forest, reads "Protect Weelaunee"

Voices from Weelaunee Three Conversations from the Struggle to Stop Cop City ウィーラウニーからの声アトランタの森を守る、ストップ・コップ・シティの闘いをめぐる会話 Voci da Weelaunee Conversazioni sulla lotta per difendere l'Atlanta Forest e Stop Cop City

Atlanta, Georgia, USA March 2023

Cop City, or the “Atlanta Public Safety Training Center,” was proposed by liberal politicians in Atlanta, Georgia as a response to the 2020 nationwide uprising against the police. The proposal to bulldoze 300 acres of wetlands and forest and build a $90 million militarized police training facility was quickly discovered and scandalized by local militants dedicated to carrying forward the combative spirit of the George Floyd Uprising. Opponents launched a multifaceted campaign against the project, welding together the two most conflictual forms of struggle that have manifested in the so-called United States in the past decade — struggles against the police, and struggles in defense of the land.

Nature Always Wins Mohawk Elders on 500 Years of Struggle and Survival

Kahnawà:ke, Quebec, Canada June 2022

Over 500 years after the first colonists arrived to Turtle Island, after 500 years of genocide waged against the original peoples of this land, and amidst the apocalyptic culmination of an even longer war against the natural world itself, we ask: how have some traditional Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) people survived to this day, and what gives them the power to keep fighting? What are the roles of culture and language in their struggle to survive as a people? For those born into settler colonial societies, inheriting their relations based on greed and destruction and the culture and language which realize those relations: could it be possible to orient towards another way, to reestablish connection with the Earth and to uphold their role as part of creation?

lichen, grasses, moss and leaves cover a stony mound

Midnight Meanderings a Conversation about Ritual and Revolutionary Politics from the US to Japan to Korea

Pacific Northwest, USA Spring 2022

At a communal land project in the Pacific Northwest, around a fire on a spring evening, revolutionaries coming from Japan, Korea and the US meet and share stories. As the night deepens, the conversation winds from human ecologies, nuclear disaster and land defense to the politics of ritual, the materiality of animism and the need of re-enchanting the world amidst the wreckage of Euro-American Empire.

minimal painting depicting a black and red circle, by Ben Morea

A Life in Rebellion with Ben Morea 武装する愛ベン・モレア Una vida en rebelión Ben Morea

NYC, NY, USA Winter 2020

The following conversations are excerpted from Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion, by 1000 voices and Ben Morea. A legendary figure best known for his role in the notorious 1960’s collectives Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, today Ben is a beloved elder for young radicals around the world. We created this book together as a medium for transmission, that seeks to draw insight and inspiration from Ben’s lifelong revolutionary journey and pass it on for the generations to come. Here, we discuss his reemergence after forty years of intentional obscurity, the political and spiritual practice of relating to life in the universe, and the dire necessity of animism today.

black and white image depicting ferns on the forest floor

The Mountain is in Me Reflections from a Yamabushi

Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan November 2023

This conversation took place outside of Tsuruoka, Yamagata, in northwestern Japan, in November 2023. We were on a tour sharing information from struggles in the US — the George Floyd Uprising of 2020, the struggle against Cop City in the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia, and our own attempts to live communally and in deeper relation with the land. We were hosted by our friend Masanori Naruse, who is a yamabushi monk and harvester of wild foods. The conversation mostly speaks for itself, but some context may be helpful.

The view from Highway NM-502, looking down from the Pajarito Plateau climbing towards Los Alamos.

Cracks in the Empire: Nuclear Colonialism and Resistance on Tewa Territory —

Pojoaque, Tewa territory in New Mexico, USA October 2024

In October 2024, we undertook a tour of the American Southwest in order to learn more about the nuclear industry, from uranium mining and processing to weapons manufacturing and waste disposal. We met with people resisting the nuclear industry on three different reservations (San Ildefonso Pueblo, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute) and learned about the legacy of uranium extraction and contamination, the history of land dispossession, and the nuclear colonialism that defines the economy of the region — as well as possibilities for resistance in the heart of US imperial power.