Vice, “California Anti-Fascists Want Racists and the Trump Administration to Be Afraid”
Throughout the Bay Area, there are many organizations, which overlap with and exist within the same ecosystem as Antifa, committed to building these kinds of autonomous communities through urban-farming projects, radical hacker collectives, anarchist presses, and anti-capitalist art making. Street fights and property destruction, however, make the news more often than these other activities. Continue […]
The Oregonian, “Portland May Day march organizers criticize police response”
On Tuesday, people who were there pieced together what transpired. No participants endorsed anarchists’ actions – setting a fire in a downtown street, vandalizing two police vehicles and breaking windows of downtown buildings – but none directly blamed anarchists for the eruption of violence. Continue Reading
The Oregonian, “Nobody wanted the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade canceled”
Direct Action Alliance is a loose group of leftist activists, which Bureros said includes anarchists, antifascists (or “antifa” members), socialists and a few Bernie-leaning liberals. Continue Reading
Q13 Fox Seattle, “Behind the Masks: What the May Day protesters in Seattle want”
It has turned a lot of people off to their message, but by looking closer and actually speaking with self-described anti-capitalists and anarchists, you can find the serious issues behind the black hoodies and masks. Continue Reading
Washington City Paper, “HGJ vs. USA, Part VI: Adventures in Asheville and Alabama”
He asks what kind of philosophy I studied and I say “Post-structuralism, but mostly I’m just an anarcho-communist.” The conversation ends there and we go watch Janel Leppin. Continue Reading
SF Gate, “Arrests made as protesters clash at pro-Trump rally in Berkeley”
Trump protesters and anarchists waving red-and-black flags, marched around the park, periodically stopping to clash with the Trump supporters. Continue Reading
Mountain Xpress, “Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair offers community building, networking, presentations, workshops, live music, and dance parties in May”
Anarchists have a vision of community where everyone (neighbors, coworkers, artists, parents, children, friends) can have justice, agency, shelter, enough to eat and more through horizontal and respectful engagement. The authoritarian and frightened vision of the POTUS and his ilk, based of reaction and retraction, is no way forward together. Instead, we propose a world […]
Esquire, “How the Government Is Turning Protesters Into Felons”
A New York Times article published two weeks after the inauguration about anarchist protests accorded just half a sentence to the fact that a Yiannopolous supporter in Seattle shot and seriously injured an anti-fascist activist, and has yet to face charges. Fifteen paragraphs down, a mere mention was given to the mass arrest of the […]
NPR, “Watch A Video For Nana Grizol’s Scrappy, Sweet And Political ‘Mississippi Swells'”
Theo Hilton is one of the few songwriters that can turn a song about oil refineries in the Mississippi watershed into a long and reflective conversation with a friend, all the while referencing Cindy Milstein’s Anarchism And Its Aspirations. Continue Reading
LA Weekly, “Quetzal Urge Artists in the Era of Trump: ‘Say Something That Means Something'”
It’s been a little over two months now since Donald Trump took the oath of office. His first week in office saw numerous protests worldwide, with people of all backgrounds blocking highways in Los Angeles, anarchists punching trust-fund Nazis in the face, and millions of women marching in defense of their rights with the power […]