Washingtonian, “Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can”
In reality, the organizers of the DisruptJ20 activities will openly tell you they have no love for Hillary Clinton or any other non-Trump political figure. Anarchist protests are broadly anti-authority. But today, we got a bunch of photos of one burning trash can, and now we’re going to wait for the President’s response on early-morning Twitter. Continue […]
Fader, “How To Successfully Fight For Change, According To 6 People Who Actually Know”
Penny Rimbaud, 73 Co-founder of seminal anarcho-punk band Crass, co-founder of Stonehenge Free Festival, performance artist, writer. Continue Reading
The Nation, “Anti-Fascists Will Fight Trump’s Fascism in the Streets”
More than 50 anarchist, anti-fascist, anti-racist groups from across the country have called for a #J20 Disruption. “We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will […]
Puget Sound Business Journal, “Protests, marches and an Amazon party likely to disrupt Seattle traffic Friday and Saturday”
Puget Sound Anarchists Break Away March: The region’s anarchist group has a call to members to participate in a counter demonstration aimed a disrupting “business as usual.” It’s unclear how many participants will be involved. The site suggests they wear black and carry black flags. Continue Reading
The Oregonian, “A protest and a march that could test Portland’s resolve to police itself: Editorial Agenda 2017”
All good so far. Freedom of speech requires no permission. What will be required, however, is that things stay as lawful as they promise to be impassioned. If the bat-wielding cowards who trashed the Pearl District following Trump’s election in November show up to create more destruction, they will be met with the very resistance […]
Washington CityPaper, “How 2017’s Brand of Uprising Looks in the Shadow of D.C.’s Counter-Inaugural Traditions”
Activists familiar with its planning say it is more likely to draw arrests and take on an anarchist tenor than more mainstream demonstrations such as the competing—or complementary, depending on your point of view—Resist J20. Positive Force will have representation at Disrupt J20, but the group isn’t monolithic—its all-volunteer ranks embrace varying methods and degrees […]
New Jersey 101.5, “The biggest terror threat facing the Garden State”
“There is also growing concern about anarchists mobilizing amid civil unrest. What we are seeing is anarchists, particularly out in the west. They are beginning to join other radical social movements, including white supremacists and separatists, in causing violence around government facilities,” Rodriguez said. Continue Reading
The Washington Times, “Record protest crowds expected to greet Trump at his inauguration”
DisruptJ20, a coalition of left-wing groups and anarchists, has vowed to “stop the inauguration from happening” and force it to move indoors, while RefuseFascism has called for protesters to “take to the streets” to “stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts.” Continue Reading
WIVB 4 (Buffalo), “Presidential Inauguration history in WNY”
The tragic fall of one President led to the rise of another. President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in September, 1901. A 28-year-old named Leon Czolgosz approached him with a gun. He shot the President in the stomach twice. “Czolgosz was an anarchist and he believed that by killing the President of […]
Vogue, “Radical Feminist Posters Never Go Out of Style”
Working at times with like-minded organizations like Women in Print, they made prints, T-shirts, cards, calendars; your modern anarchist agenda and radical planner probably owes a certain debt to See Red. The collective acknowledged the influence of the French Situationists, the posters of the Chinese cultural revolution, and art critic John Berger’s challenge to the […]