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

Two ways: Outcry Cloud (web, 12 free messages/day, paid plans from $7/mo) and the Outcry app (free to download on iPhone, iPad and Mac).

Data

No ads and no third-party tracking scripts. Free-tier chats may be used to improve Outcry's models, with IP addresses stripped; paid plans are opted out of Outcry's own training datasets by default. Details at outcryai.com/privacy.

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?