Quartz, “Burning Man just moved one step closer to becoming a religion”
Burning Man began in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It started as a get-together among friends and members of the anarchist Cacophony Society. As the event moved to the Nevada desert and became more mainstream, it became a draw for celebrities and tech billionaires, causing frustration over “turnkey” camps in recent years and […]
The Days After the Election and the Days Before the Revolution
by Anarchist Resistance NYC Since the election, many are asking themselves how they could be waking up to the reality of President-Elect Trump. Our question instead is what does this mean for the Left in this country. Paralyzing myths have now been shattered, and this situation could, with a lot of work, passion, and clear […]
Vice, “Meet the Charismatic Protester Leading the ‘Portland Resistance’ Against Trump”
The police called one rally in Portland a “riot” after some participants damaged businesses and cars and threw objects at cops, and naturally the protests were used as evidence by right-wingers that anti-Trump activists were violent rubes. But as someone who was on the front lines of the protests for hours multiple nights, I can […]
Vice, “The 100 Best Albums of 2016”
Small, former mining villages across the UK rarely get the credit they deserve for producing some of the country’s finest artists. In this case, sentimental anarchists Martha, from a town in Durham that is literally called “Pity Me,” write from a working class experience that often gets sidelined by London-centric politics. Continue Reading
Time, “2016 Person of the Year Runner Up: Hackers”
The truth, as security researchers have shown in recent years, is both more malignant and more mundane. There are the good, the bad and every morally ambiguous shade in between. There are those sponsored by a state or a terrorist organization. There are the freedom fighters, the truth campaigners, the anarchists, the tinkerers. There are […]
The Daily Beast, “‘Leave, Nazis!’ Greets Alt-Right in Texas”
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—An anarchist in a black mask picked up a handful of rocks and threw them at a trio of white nationalists. Continue Reading
Mic, “Richard Spencer sparks protest at Texas A&M, says America ‘belongs to white men'”
Two protesters, neither of them Texas A&M students, were arrested Tuesday at the Spencer event. According to local radio station WTAW, one person was charged with felony assault of a public servant, and misdemeanor charges for interfering with public duties and resisting arrest. The other was charged with two misdemeanors: resisting arrest and evading detention. A […]
The New York Times, “‘The World Sees Me as the One Who Will Find Another Earth’”
Then, in the fall of 2009, Wevrick got a stomachache that drove him to bed. They figured it was the flu. Wevrick didn’t have the flu, but a rare cancer of the small intestine. They were told that the initial prospects were good, and he fought the cancer sufferer’s systematic fight. But while laws govern […]
The Caswell Messenger (NC), “Protests in Pelham”
Making his way through the crowd was a man who said he was from North Carolina carrying a large red and black flag. “It’s an Anarcho-Syndicalist Flag. It’s a symbol of resistance to fascism. People marched under this flag in Spain 1936 after there was a fascist coup of their government.” Continue Reading