Newly Revealed FBI Document Confirms Collaboration Between DC Police and Discredited Far-Right Group Project Veritas
By Kris Hermes On January 13, 2017, a week before Donald Trump was set to be inaugurated as the 45th US president, law enforcement officers from the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington, DC, sat down with three Project Veritas operatives and their lawyer, Benjamin Barr, to discuss their infiltration of a number of public […]
Kris Hermes: Mass Arrests in 2020 Echo the Brutality Endured by RNC Protesters 20 Years Ago
By Kris Hermes, August 1st, 2020Originally posted on TruthoutCopyright Truthout.org, Reprinted with permission. Police surrounded a West Philadelphia warehouse on the afternoon of August 1, where more than 70 protesters were making puppets. Multiple Pennsylvania state police officers infiltrated the group of “puppetistas” days earlier and, that afternoon, the deputy police commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) claimed […]
COVID-19 and Uprisings for Black Liberation Used as a Pretext for Advancing Mass Surveillance
Kris Hermes, July 15, 2020 On the night of June 1, amidst mass uprisings against police violence and structural racism, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) deployed it’s most advanced spy plane, equipped with sophisticated long-range video cameras that can capture footage day or night, see through haze, and provide infrared thermal imaging, in order […]
Ngo More Sympathy: Mainstream Media Must Recognize the Real Threat of Fascism
A media frenzy has ensued surrounding self-proclaimed journalist Andy Ngo who sought to bring attention to his plight after he was confronted by anti-fascist activists counter-protesting a white nationalist demonstration in Portland, OR on June 29. Ngo was allegedly punched, “milkshaked,” and the target of a silly-string attack. Ngo is well-known in antifa circles as […]
Remaining J20 Cases Dismissed: Takeaways for Anarchists and our Social Movements
More than seventeen months after DC police “kettled” and arrested 234 protesters, journalists, medics, legal observers, and bystanders, subsequently charging them with several riot-related felonies, the Trump administration was forced to dismiss the remaining Inauguration Day (J20) cases. On Jan. 20, 2017, thousands of people protested the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC and […]