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Jen Angel

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Angel was robbed in a bank parking lot on February 6, 2023, and then critically injured as a result. She chased after the getaway car, but got caught in the vehicle’s door and was dragged more than 50 feet, smashing her head on the sidewalk. She was put in a medically induced coma and later declared
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Angel moved back to the Bay Area in 2006 and created her company Angel Cakes in 2008. Their retail shop opened in Oakland in March 2016. The shop offered 120 flavors of cupcakes and donated money and provided desserts for social justice efforts such as environmental justice, housing, and criminal
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dead on February 9, 2023. In a statement, Angel's family and friends wrote that Angel "...did not believe in state violence, carceral punishment, or incarceration as an effective or just solution to social violence and inequity," and they have expressed a commitment to pursuing
196:, which continues annually in Detroit. She also founded Agency, an anarchist public relations project, and Aid & Abet, an event management group. She was a core organizer of the Bay Area 139:(1991–2000), while in high school. She continued her media activism through a variety of publications and organizing efforts. From 1996 to 2004, she was a co-editor of 606: 586: 626: 621: 631: 616: 470: 601: 495: 521:"Inaugural Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant Memorializes Legacy of Oakland Baker & Social Justice Activist Killed Earlier This Year" 611: 446: 200:, and from 2013 to 2014 she helped organize the Bay Area Radical History Project, which sought to connect newer activists from the 424: 238: 163:
profiled them in their 2002 article, "Young Visionaries: 30 under 30." Her writing has been featured in magazines including
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to John and Pat Engel and started using the last name Angel in high school. She earned a degree in journalism in 1997 from
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from 1997 to 1998, which led to her temporary relocation from the Midwest to the
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A suspect in her murder, Ishmael Jenkins Burch, was arrested in June 2023.
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In 1999, Angel helped organize the Underground Publishing Conference in
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announced the creation of the Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant.
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Jen Angel began writing and publishing her personal
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Dearborn, Michigan
Oakland, California
Ohio State University
BA
Clamor
Maximum Rock'n'Roll
Dearborn, Michigan
Ohio State University
zine
Maximum Rocknroll
Bay Area
Clamor
Utne Reader
Bitch
Punk Planet
In These Times
Bowling Green, Ohio
Midwest Zine Conference
Allied Media Conference
Anarchist Book Fair
Occupy movement
restorative justice
Institute for Anarchist Studies
"Jen Angel Obituary (1975 - 2023)"



"'Unsung hero': the baker and activist whose death inspired calls for restorative justice"

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