USA Today, “Three homeland security lessons from Charlottesville: Michael Chertoff”
Indeed, from 2000 to last year, white supremacists carried out 26 domestic attacks, causing 49 deaths. And such demonstrators often come prepared for violence at demonstrations, as do their anarchist counterparts on the left. Continue Reading
The Mercury News (CA), “California right-winger behind Charlottesville violence”
Damigo told KQED he hit her “because she was a threat; because she was going to attack his friends; because she was a member of Antifa, a leftist confederation of socialists and anarchists — some of whom have committed acts of violence and arson.” Continue Reading
Fox 40 Sacramento, “Local College Student Involved in Charlottesville Turmoil”
But opponents, including self-described anarchist groups, are painting Damigo as the violent instigator and trying to have him expelled from Stanislaus State. Continue Reading
Politico, “Domestic hate groups elude feds”
Also, the FBI and the Justice Department don’t keep lists of domestic terrorist organizations, because of concerns about civil liberties. Those concerns also prevent federal authorities from engaging in the kind of sweeping surveillance and monitoring of the Ku Klux Klan and anarchist groups that was more accepted in decades past, before reforms were put […]
Capital Public Radio (CA), “Calif. Lawmakers Asks Feds To Stop Alt-Right Rally In SF”
But white supremacists and neo-Nazis have tagged along to Patriot Prayer rallies, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled its members provocateurs, who goad far-left and anarchist groups to attack them. Continue Reading
ABC 7 San Francisco, “San Francisco leaders oppose right-wing rally permitted for Crissy Fields”
Based in Portland, Oregon, Patriot Prayer is an “alt-right” group specializing “in rallies aimed at provoking far-left and anarchist groups,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. Violence has been documented at other events organized by the group. Continue Reading
MTV News, “A UVA Student Organizer Recounts His 24 Hours Of Counter-Protest In Charlottesville”
When it comes to Charlottesville, I know that I’m, at least, going to be following the lead of local groups who have been working quietly (and not necessarily in the media spotlight) for years to dismantle white supremacy in our town — like Black Lives Matter, the Charlottesville coalition of Showing Up for Racial Justice […]
Vocativ, “How 4chan Doxxing Led To The Arrest Of A College Professor”
To stoke the flames even more, someone surfaced a video of Clanton, who was introduced as an anarchist, lecturing about “restorative justice.” Internet-based doxxing efforts are nothing new within the community of far-right online trolls looking to serve up their own form of justice. It’s something those active within these communities have come to affectionately refer to as […]
OC Weekly, “Charges Dropped Against Pepper-Spraying Antifa Who Saved OC Weekly Reporter at Trump Rally”
We were the only newspaper to report the truth: that Trumpbros harassed, kicked, punched and intimidated the vastly-outnumbered anarchists and antifa who protested against them, and that said antifa used pepper spray only to defend OC Weekly reporters who were getting assaulted by white supremacists or to defend themselves from Trumpbros who were pummeling them while […]
Bedford and Bowery, “Clash Over Anti-Semitism as Controversial Speaker Gilad Atzmon Appears at Theatre 80”
“Jew-Haters [get] out of the East Village,” blared a leaflet handed out by local journalist Bill Weinberg, a leftwing anarchist who writes a blog called New Jewish Resistance. His leaflet describes Atzmon, who was born in Israel and served as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces, as a “proud self-hating Jew” who allegedly traffics in anti-Semitism and has made […]