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
BuzzFeed, “After Trump’s Win, Secure Messaging App Signal’s Downloads Increase 400%”
“There has never been a single event that has resulted in this kind of sustained, day-over-day increase,” Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, the software nonprofit behind Signal, told BuzzFeed News. Marlinspike interpreted the jump as a reaction to Trump’s win, and anxiety over the future of US surveillance. The secure communications tool […]
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
Washington Examiner, “Trump to meet with with fiery anti-Obama sheriff, 7 others on Monday”
Among them are Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who rose to prominence this year as an outspoken critic of the Black Lives Matter movement. He has called the group an “anarchist movement” and a “hate group” and said President Obama “set this whole country on fire with his race politics.” 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, […]
The Guardian, “To vote, or not to vote? For many the answer is simply: why bother?”
Jones, an advocate for nonviolent protest and board member of an educational non-profit, said: “Being a difference maker is more than punching a ballot every two or four years.” He said it would take an exceptional candidate – one who would eliminate the federal reserve, end direct taxation and shrink the military – to suit […]
Los Angeles Times, “What Trump’s Win Means for Books”
Critic at Large Viet Thanh Nguyen has written a fiery essay about the Democrats’ failure and our future. “Here’s what I have to say to American liberals and leftists: instead of listening to the strategists, who don’t believe it’s possible to dramatically change our society, can we finally be bold and listen to the artists […]