The Atlantic, “Seeking an Escape From Trump’s America”
For the last eight years, Nicolas and Rachel Sarah have been slowly weaning themselves off fossil fuels. They don’t own a refrigerator or a car; their year-old baby and four-year-old toddler play by candlelight rather than electricity at night. They identify as Christian anarchists, and have given an official name to their search for an […]
Wired, “Here’s What Sci-Fi Can Teach Us About Fascism”
Fiume served as a breeding ground for radical ideas, everything from socialism to anarcho-syndicalism to fascism. Sterling says it’s hard for many people to understand the allure of fascism, but that it makes more sense when you look at it sort of like a big-budget sci-fi blockbuster that overwhelms your brain with its dazzling special […]
The Buffalo News, “A granddaughter’s portrayal of Dorothy Day”
Get ready now for a few paragraphs that detail the complication that describes Dorothy’s life over the next ten years. In 1917, atheism, anarchism, socialism, vegetarianism, women’s rights, free love, free speech, free thought – all were in the air in New York City’s Greenwich Village, our author writes. Continue Reading
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 […]
BuzzFeed, “Inside The Alt-Right’s Campaign To Smear Trump Protesters As Anarchists”
Some Trump supporters took the sign as confirmation that the passionate national opposition to the president-elect was ultimately anarchic and violent. (Many of these supporters had drawn a similar conclusion about the Black Lives Matter movement.) “The current surge in the left’s propensity toward violence and mayhem should surprise no one,” wrote one InfoWars commenter. […]
Prince George Citizen (Canada), “Tolkien was right about power, control and centralization”
When asked about his politics, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien simply responded that he was an “anarchist of the non-violent variety” and as has clearly come to be shown through his life, letters, and works, this translates to a profound belief in the principle of “subsidiarity,” or letting power reside with the nearest level possible. This […]
Folio Weekly (FL), “A Progressive COUNTERREVOLUTION in Northeast Florida?”
The most recent Political Mass at Shantytown Pub featured music by some of Jacksonville’s underground musicians, including punk powerhouse Gross Evolution, who screamed onstage, “Together we’re everything; apart we’re nothing.” Devout anarchists, Gross Evolution makes their opinion known through their lyrics and on-stage dissent. Between songs, lead singer/guitar master Nerwin Segovia intoned, “We hate the […]