Press

Outcry in the press

Outcry is an activist AI built by Micah Bornfree, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street. This page collects independent coverage, fast facts for reporters, and a direct line for press inquiries.

Coverage

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  May 27, 2026·Tom Hawking
  Occupy Wall Street Co-Founder Built an AI App to Help Activists Seize the Means of Computation

  “This app has the potential to be a really valuable resource, especially for people just beginning to become involved with activism.”

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  May 19, 2026·Ellsworth Toohey
  Outcry: free on-device AI mentor for activists

  “Because everything stays local, the app keeps working on a plane or inside a police kettle.”

Fast facts

What it is

Outcry is an AI trained on 2,000+ books of resistance, activist theory, and movement history — built for organizers, not corporations.

Who built it

Micah Bornfree (Micah White, PhD), co-creator of Occupy Wall Street and author of The End of Protest (Knopf, 2016).

How to run it

Three ways: Outcry Cloud (web, 12 free messages/day, $7/mo unlimited), Outcry Local (free iOS/Mac app, fully on-device), and Outcry Sovereign (one-time $2K Mac install for teams).

Privacy

Outcry Local and Sovereign never leave your hardware. Paid Cloud plans opt out of training. Free Cloud chats are stripped of IP and never sold.

About the founder

Micah White, PhD (writing as Micah Bornfree) is the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, author of The End of Protest (Knopf, 2016), and a lifelong activist focused on the future of social-movement strategy. Outcry is his answer to a question he started asking after Occupy: what would AI built by organizers, on activist theory, actually look like?