Business Insider, “18-year-old YouTuber fooled Fox News by pretending to be ‘antifa’ and calling a police horse a ‘racist Trump supporter'”
“It is time for liberals and progressives to lose their illusions about the anarchist movement and our tactics because, quite frankly, you have no one else willing to fight for you,” the letter said. Continue Reading
The Daily Dot, “‘The Heart’ podcast decodes sex with more intimacy than you’re ready for”
The local McGill University station in Montreal began airing the show on the first Wednesday of each month. It started as a four-woman anarchist collective. Many iterations, nine years, and one podcast network named Radiotopia later, the show averages more than 2 million listens a year. Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “Activists, wary of health-care bill pause, plan more protests against proposal”
The alliance between elected Democrats and protest groups, fragile just a few months ago, has strengthened even as protests have become more disruptive. In Georgia’s special House election, Republican groups spent millions of dollars linking the Democratic candidate to “the resistance,” with images of Women’s March protesters seeping into footage of anarchists smashing windows. Continue […]
Tucson Sentinel, “Bisbee hosts remembrances of infamous deportation of union miners”
The radical International Workers of the World, a group of anarchists, socialists and syndicalists known as the Wobblies, stepped in and started organizing in the early months of 1917. They called a strike on June 26 after their demands weren’t met by Phelps Dodge. Continue Reading
Chicago Tribune, “Now from the Newberry Library: Old books at the fair, new ideas at the Bughouse”
From roughly the 1880s into the 1930s people came to the park and stood on soapboxes or crates and spouted their passions, theories, lunacies and philosophies to anyone who would listen. Some were famous and smart (Carl Sandburg, Emma Goldman, Eugene V. Debs). Many others were anonymous anarchists, dreamers, poets and preachers. Some of them […]
Fox News, “WATCH: Watters Spars With Protester from Violent ANTIFA Group”
Kevin from the Boston ANTIFA branch penned an open letter on the anarchist site ItsGoingDown.org urging liberals and progressives to violence to take down President Trump. The letter claims a rise in “far-Right violence, murder, and arson attacks, which have been almost completely ignored by both the media and the Trump administration.” Continue Reading
Mediaite, “Jesse Watters Was Apparently Trolled By YouTuber Posing as Antifa Member Named ‘Kevin’”
On Saturday’s episode of Watters World, Watters introduced his audience to “Kevin,” a member of the Boston antifa branch. He brought “Kevin” on because he took credit for an anonymous open letter that was published and he allegedly wrote, “It is time for liberals and progressives to lose their illusions about the anarchist movement and […]
Financial Times, “Germany’s SPD leader feels the heat on law and order”
Some in the SPD say that if anyone is to blame it is Chancellor Merkel, whose decision it was to hold the G20 summit in a 1.8m-strong city renowned for its anarchist, anti-establishment vibe. Continue Reading
CBS Portland, “November rioter charged for smashing windows”
Police learned of Elliott’s identity after he was arrested on May 1, 2017 during another riot. When he was arrested he “had in his possession multiple flares, anarchist literature and a large rock,” according to court documents. Video from the May 1 riot shows Elliott approaching a police vehicle with a burning flare. Continue Reading
Smithsonian Magazine, “The Biggest Trial of the 1920s Continues to Resonate”
Both men were involved with a direct-action anarchist movement, the same group that was later blamed for the 1920 Wall Street bombing while they were in jail. But there was little to say they had carried out the armed robbery, writes Temkin, who does not believe it is likely that the pair were guilty. What […]