Politico, “Politico’s Best Photos of 2016”
Protesters, identifying themselves as anarchists, gather amid media and police during a demonstration near the Republican National Convention July 20, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. Although mass protests were expected, they never materialized amid a massive police presence throughout Cleveland. Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “A Radical Post-Bernie Cooperative Multicultural Immigrant Manifesto”
Just how could this cooperative-immigrant alliance actually work? One need look no further than Athens, Greece for the ultimate gold standard. There, anarchists have established the so-called Notaria solidarity center in the Exarcheia neighborhood. Eschewing a purely philanthropic approach, Notara asks refugees to attend assembly meetings where decisions are made on a consensus basis. Continue […]
The Guardian, “The day I went hunting for the Ku Klux Klan”
With an hour to kill before the Klan parade, there was general anxiety that some faction of the protesters would start a drum circle. “The anarchists don’t like drum circles,” Megan noted. Sugelema pointed to a man with a red drum at his feet. Two other men were carrying cymbals. Another man with an elaborate […]
Vice, “Meet the Charismatic Protester Leading the ‘Portland Resistance’ Against Trump”
The police called one rally in Portland a “riot” after some participants damaged businesses and cars and threw objects at cops, and naturally the protests were used as evidence by right-wingers that anti-Trump activists were violent rubes. But as someone who was on the front lines of the protests for hours multiple nights, I can […]
The Caswell Messenger (NC), “Protests in Pelham”
Making his way through the crowd was a man who said he was from North Carolina carrying a large red and black flag. “It’s an Anarcho-Syndicalist Flag. It’s a symbol of resistance to fascism. People marched under this flag in Spain 1936 after there was a fascist coup of their government.” Continue Reading
New York Daily News, “Beyond the alt-right, is Donald Trump’s America really about anarchy?”
But in the dangerous rise of the alt-right, we may be missing another storyline swirling around the zeitgeist, and it’s one that explains our current political climate just as convincingly: the rise of anarchism. Continue Reading
KATU 2 (Portland), “Portland police: Officers accrue $592,816 in overtime pay during election protests”
What started as a peaceful anti-Trump protest turned destructive when anarchists joined the nearly 4000-person march, smashing windows and defacing property in across Portland. Continue Reading
Al Jazeera, “Noam Chomsky on the new Trump era”
In a special UpFront interview, renowned US academic and public intellectual Noam Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the implications of a Donald Trump presidency, on both domestic and global issues. Continue Reading
Westword (Denver), “Sole’s New Track “Three Way Fight” Addresses Politics of Protest in Denver and Beyond”
We didn’t do anything violent and we didn’t do anything that night that hadn’t been done at the previous march, but as soon as we took the streets, the cops started kettling us and were arresting people. There were more cops than there were protestors that night. That gets to the root of it — […]
Daily Mail, “Donald Trump won the White House with less support from black and Hispanic voters than any president in 40 years”
In the wake of Trump’s victory, protesters on the left took to the streets by the thousands in cities across the country, in some cases causing property damage. Much of the agitation was motivated by a belief that Trump’s administration will foster racism and push the courts and other political institutions to disenfranchise minority voters, […]