Remaining J20 Cases Dismissed: Takeaways for Anarchists and our Social Movements

More than seventeen months after DC police “kettled” and arrested 234 protesters, journalists, medics, legal observers, and bystanders, subsequently charging them with several riot-related felonies, the Trump administration was forced to dismiss the remaining Inauguration Day (J20) cases. On Jan. 20, 2017, thousands of people protested the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC and […]

Washington Examiner, “Arizona’s new riot act reflects bubbling conservative paranoia”

The ostensible point of the law is to place violent anarchist rioters (like the ones at Trump’s inauguration that smashed windows, and broke my reporter’s iPhone and gave him a concussion) within the reach of racketeering laws. Anyone who loves limits on government power ought to be skeptical of racketeering laws, especially their expansion. Originally […]

Vice, “Inside Canada’s Five-Year-Long Anti-Terror Investigation of a Group of Quebec Communists,” March 19, 2015

Inside Canada’s Five-Year-Long Anti-Terror Investigation of a Group of Quebec Communists by Nora T. Lamontagne and Justin Ling, Vice, March 19, 2015 Since the recruitment center bombing, investigators have significantly narrowed their focus to 11 activists that they believe are responsible. They are a rag-tag group of communists, anarchists, and anti-capitalist activists. For the past […]