WJCT (Jacksonville, FL), “Co-Op Cafe Expands As Counter-Culture Hub In Downtown Jacksonville”
Info shops sprang up in the 1990s, often with counter-culture or anarchist tilts. Friar said Coniferous Cafe doesn’t adhere to one political philosophy, but rather aims to be a conduit to thinking outside the mainstream partisan divide. Continue Reading
WBUR 90.9, “The Lucy Parsons Center, Where Boston’s Radicals Shop For Books”
In 1871, violating miscegenation laws, she married Albert Parsons, a socialist, anarchist, reporter and former Confederate soldier. Together, they were castigated by police and politicians for their tireless efforts to elevate workers’ rights and fight all forms of repression. Continue Reading
Washington Examiner, “Stephen Miller is right: Lazarus’ immigration poem is not US law”
Thus paupers were not allowed, or elderly people with no assets or relatives; there was even a political test, for “anarchists,” which is not so surprising considering that in the 1890-1901 period anarchist terrorists murdered the president of France, the empress of Austria, and the president of the United States. Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “How capitalism cornered the market on authenticity”
In response, creative entrepreneurs looked for alternative lifestyle options. One particularly successful example was Roycroft, a Utopian community in western New York. Established by Elbert Hubbard, a late-19th-century soap mogul turned anarchist publisher, Roycroft offered an off-grid respite from urban industrialism, one where members could focus on making artisanal crafts. Continue Reading
Haaretz, “Spanish Civil War’s Lesson for Israel, U.S.: Polarization, Incitement Paved Way to Hell”
The clash pitted capitalists against communists, monarchists against anarchists, conservatives vs. libertarians, fascists against democrats, religious fanatics against secular extremists, centralists against those who backed regional independence for Catalans, Basques and others. The tensions were fueled by the spread of Fascism and Communism, which undermined democracy and enabled each side to describe its enemy in […]
The Daily Beast, “The Unabomber Is Back to Terrorize America”
He resigned abruptly two years later, and, by 1971, had moved to a remote cabin in Lincoln, Montana, where he lived as a recluse for the next two decades and, as we know now, waged a deadly mail-bombing campaign in the name of anarchism. A “manifesto” he wrote that—along with a tip from his brother—helped […]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Attack on Frick hurts Homestead strike”
The shooter, an anarchist named Alexander Berkman, also stabbed the chairman of the Carnegie steel company with a homemade dagger. Frick survived but Berkman’s attempted assassination of the industrial magnate turned public opinion against the men who were occupying the Carnegie works in Homestead. Continue Reading
Salon, “A radical new approach to the immigration “problem”: Beyond left and right, Trumpism and neoliberalism”
It was in this period that the racial exclusion started going hand in hand with all sorts of exclusions that had not been on the books before, such as prostitutes, subversives — added after the anarchist Leon Czolgosz (who was actually born in Michigan) assassinated President William McKinley, and persecuted especially during and after World […]
USA Today, “Buffalo builds on architecture tourism”
That 1901 Pan American Exposition is where anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley. Continue Reading
Metro, “Who you gonna call? A real-life ghostbuster”
“The history of spiritualism in America ties into the history of the suffragette movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, the anarchist movement,” says Hendrix. “So many people get hung up on the question of whether these mediums were actually talking to spirits or committing fraud, but if you ignore that question you’re still left […]