WBUR 90.9, “The Lucy Parsons Center, Where Boston’s Radicals Shop For Books”
In 1871, violating miscegenation laws, she married Albert Parsons, a socialist, anarchist, reporter and former Confederate soldier. Together, they were castigated by police and politicians for their tireless efforts to elevate workers’ rights and fight all forms of repression. Continue Reading
Boston Herald, ” Tempers flare at ‘Free Speech Rally’ as alt-right, socialist groups clash”
As police officers worked to keep the two groups apart, demonstrators using megaphones spent more than four hours shouting insults across the barrier and one self-described anarchist set a small American flag on fire. At one point a girl who said she was a Quincy High School student threw a rock at the pro-Trump side. […]
The Boston Globe, “A free speech clash on the Common leads to two arrests”
“I suggest you get a job and then you move out to whatever country you want, since you don’t like it [here] so much,” said a man wearing a military uniform to a counter-protester who wore a black scarf over his face. Continue Reading
Boston Magazine, “The Life and Death and Rebirth of Boston’s Counterculture”
Drifters, squatters, and anarcho-collectivists colonized Boston Common—suburban flight had already decimated the city’s economic base—triggering breathless Globe coverage and pearl-clutching moral panic. After witnessing antiwar protests and clouds of reefer smoke hanging over his city, Cambridge Mayor Daniel Hayes in 1967 actually declared a “War on Hippies.” Continue Reading
Smithsonian SmartNews, “The Sticky Science Behind the Deadly Boston Molasses Disaster”
Though an anarchist terrorist attack was first blamed for the calamity, investigators soon pointed at the holding tank’s shoddy construction. But the question has remained, why did the molasses explode as a wave and not just slowly drip out of the tank? A group of students at Harvard investigated the event and presented their conclusions at recent […]
The New Yorker, “Boston’s Last Brush with Capital Punishment,” April 22, 2015
Boston’s Last Brush with Capital Punishment By Douglas Starr, The New Yorker, April 22, 2015 No prisoners had been executed for half a century, and Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a pair of Italian-born anarchists who were sent to the electric chair under dubious circumstances in 1927, still held a place in the public mind. […]
The Quad, “Love and Copy Scams,” February 11, 2015
Love and Copy Scams by Kylie Obermeier, The Quad, February 11, 2015 Papercut was formed in 2005 by an anarchist collective called the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement, but later grew and separated from the group. Since then, it has jumped around to different locations, from the Democracy Center in Cambridge to Lorem Ipsum Books in Cambridge’s […]
WCVB, “Boston Police Comm’r Evans: Protestors from Occupy, anarchist groups hijacking cause,” January 16, 2015
Boston Police Comm’r Evans: Protestors from Occupy, anarchist groups hijacking cause by Karen Andersen, ABC 5 Boston, January 16, 2015 “If lives mattered today, those kids wouldn’t have been out there doing what they did because they put a lot of lives in danger,” Evans said. “This isn’t a normal group that’s been operating in […]
The Boston Globe, “Protesters snarl morning commute on I-93 near Boston,” January 15, 2015
The Boston Globe, “Protesters snarl morning commute on I-93 near Boston,” January 15, 2015 By Peter Schworm, Laura Crimaldi and John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe, JANUARY 15, 2015 Some protesters have ties to the Occupy Boston movement, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the demonstrations. One official called the protesters “anarchist-type people […]