Chicago Tribune, “Second City and the Democratic Convention: When Abbie Hoffman improvised about himself”

Fifty years ago, the political activist and anarchist Abbie Hoffman, a co-founder of the Yippies, was arrested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Along with other members of the so-called Chicago Eight — which, following the separation of one prosecution, later became the Chicago Seven — Hoffman was charged with conspiracy and intent […]

Mass Incarceration and Bipartisan Unity: An Anarchist Perspective

As momentum builds behind the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, I begin to wonder how much time and energy will be pulled away from the revolutionary anti-racist work of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and funnel instead into the fervent campaigning of Democratic candidates. Within the horrific, seemingly endless loss of Black lives, there has erupted a new […]