Sarah Lazare: Now Is the Time for ‘Nobodies’ – Dean Spade on Mutual Aid and Resistance in the Trump Era
Now Is the Time for ‘Nobodies’: Dean Spade on Mutual Aid and Resistance in the Trump Era The activist, scholar and movement lawyer takes stock of this harrowing political moment. Sarah Lazare, AlterNet, January 9, 2017 With less than a month to go until Donald Trump and his bevy of far-right appointees take the White […]
Boston Herald, “Group plans to ‘paralyze’ Washington for inauguration”
A group led by self-avowed anarchists says it intends to “paralyze” Washington, D.C., amid President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next Friday, using security point blockades, protests and sit-ins in an attempt to grind the Republican’s swearing-in to a halt. Continue Reading
.Mic, “Trump once funded a conservative provocateur now trying to pay for inauguration violence”
The attempt bribing people to incite violence is a small part of a larger conservative attempt to paint anti-Trump protesters — particularly on Inauguration Day — as violent anarchists looking for a fight. Along with conservative op-eds about angry anarchists, there is evidence suggesting organizers for the alt-right planted a “Rape Melania” sign at an anti-Trump […]
San Francisco Chronicle, “Lower East Side reaching higher as destination”
If you want a sense of Bluestockings Books, let’s just say it has an uncommon number of volumes by Noam Chomsky. Also, there are three shelves devoted to anarchism. And the fiction section is divided into post-Colonial fiction, feminist fiction and general fiction — with the latter possessing the smallest number of books. It is […]
The Verge, “Signal Boost: Demand for secret messaging apps is rising as Trump takes office”
As our interview wrapped up, Marlinspike hopped into the elevator to head out into the dark-too-early December afternoon at the corner of 16th and Mission. The street has hosted its share of both World Series victory riots and political marches. I’d read that Marlinspike used to attend political protests, and when I asked if he […]