Teen Vogue, “The History of Protest Hats Including Pussyhats”
What the pussyhat wearers were saying was, to paraphrase the American anarchist and feminist icon Emma Goldman: “If I can’t laugh, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Continue Reading
Philly.com, “MARCUS/EMMA: Revolution for a world and two bodies”
The FBI hounded and imprisoned Emma Goldman (1869-1940), too. An Eastern European Jewish anarchist, a proponent of free love and economic equality, “Red Emma” was a powerful orator, inciting crowds to protest. Her legacy can be seen in the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Occupy Movement. She founded the magazine Mother Earth. Best quote: “If I can’t […]
Bedford and Bowery, “From Anarchist Hangout to Bathhouse to Arcade: The Steamy History of 6 St. Marks”
On a chilly Thursday evening–January 5, 1911 to be exact–a mass of New York’s anarchists, socialists, and radicals were celebrating just 3 blocks north of St. Marks Place at Webster Hall. Prof. Bayard Boyesen of Columbia, and Leonard Abbott, the president of the newly formed Francisco Ferrer Association, along with Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, […]
Wired, “Anonymous’ Barrett Brown Is Free—and Ready to Pick New Fights”
Of all those books, he found particular inspiration in the autobiography of Emma Goldman, the anarcho-communist agitator who served two prison terms in the 1890s and 1910s, and was eventually deported to Soviet Russia by J. Edgar Hoover’s Justice Department. Her life, he says, serves as a reminder that a mere single prison stint doesn’t […]
Forbes, “Frank Immigration Talk”
Back in the day the U.S. responded by shutting out the world. The Wilson Administration’s Justice Department took the most flagrant action, instituting the Palmer Raids. Rounding up several thousand anarchists and communists–confirmed or suspected–the department actually deported 249 of them to Russia on the U.S.S. Buford. With enormous support from lawmakers three Presidents signed […]
Burlington Free Press, “Artists, anarchists and Christmas Eve in Barre”
While almost everyone in Barre has heard of Elia Corti, fewer know of Luigi Galleani, the anarchist-polemicist who helped enflame partisans on both sides of social issues through his controversial newspaper, Cronaca Sovversiva, (The Subversive Chronicle). His Italian language weekly was published in Barre for nine years and had an international audience. Contributors included world […]
The Atlantic, “The Republican Vogue for Stripping Citizenship”
Even Emma Goldman, the famed anarchist leader, was stripped of her citizenship not explicitly for being an anarchist, but on a technicality: She had obtained citizenship through marriage to a man who was a naturalized citizen, and the government determined that the ex-husband had fraudulently obtained his citizenship, thus invalidating hers as well. Continue Reading
Los Angeles Times, “Anarchism, with whipped cream and a cherry on top,” April 1, 2015
Anarchism, with whipped cream and a cherry on top by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2015 Labor historian Erik Loomis has unearthed a fascinating historical nugget hiding in plain sight: the famous anarchist Emma Goldman once owned an ice cream shop in Worcester, Mass. READ MORE