Observer Tribune, “Area women join thousands to march against Trump plans”
She also said that she was not overly concerned about security and didn’t know about the limited vandalism by self-professed anarchists until she got home. Continue Reading
Alternet, “The DC Police Chief Behind the Inauguration Crackdown Has a Disgraceful History”
“Of course the state is first going to go after anarchists or whoever they think they can marginalize and split off,” the source observed. “It’s only letting the security apparatus of Donald Trump grow stronger if we allow them to split off people accused of more combative protest. It is important for everyone who is […]
Salon, “Trump’s female supporters want to ‘give the man a chance'”
Anti-fascist anarchists in black masks—most of them male, I might add—burned a limousine, to the delight of Fox and Breitbart News. I have not seen of any reports of arrests at Sunday’s much larger female dominated march. Continue Reading
Washington Blade, “Outside Trump’s bubble, resistance looms”
Anarchists on Friday had disrupted peaceful protests and clashed with police. By contrast on Saturday, a friend watched a pair of Trump supporters in their red hats walk through the crowd without receiving so much as a mean glance. Continue Reading
Spin, “Donald Trump’s Inauguration: A Dispatch From the End of America”
It was easy to fret over the fighting, its optics and its effects, whether the sucker punch given to the openly white supremacist leader and Trump supporter Richard Spencer was an appropriate expression of disapproval for his promotion of racism. But politicians and pundits have been saying for the last year that a Trump presidency […]
RawStory, “Pussy hats, Black Lives Matter and Black Bloc: How to build power to counter Trump — America’s dictator in the making”
The surprise of the weekend is the multi-faceted opposition that’s emerged to his presidency. On inauguration day, activists peacefully blocked six of 14 entrances to the parade route and Black Bloc anarchists torched a limousine, smashed windows, and battled riot cops. Saturday witnessed Women’s Marches around the country, and world, that rank as some of […]
The Maneater (Missouri), “Thousands gather in Columbia for protests in solidarity against Trump”
Independent from the other two Columbia events, a smaller rally was held by the Mid-Missouri Anti-Capitalist Alliance on Friday night. The event was sponsored by several groups, including the Mid-Missouri Green Party, the Midwestern Anarchist Federation, Occupy CoMo and the Heartland Prairies Tar Sands Resistance. The rally’s description said that the goal of the event […]
Nashville Scene, “What I Saw at the D.C. March (And What I Must Do)”
There were no arrests, no smarmy “anarchists” (bored white boys) looking to make trouble. And thank goodness, too — the crowd was so large and so dense, that one glass bottle tossed into the crowd would have ended in a stampede. Continue Reading
The Almanian, “From riots to righteousness; Students on the ground at Trump’s inauguration”
After some research, we learned that the riot had started with a group of less than 10 people, dressed in all black, calling themselves anarchists and smashing in the windows of a Bank of America. The group continued with the damage of a Starbucks and a limo. These events led to defensive protestors, accusatory police […]
Elle, “The March Was Flawed and Messy and Glorious”
Even in the face of an existential threat like Donald Trump, most of my social-media feed still consisted of people who agreed on 80 percent of the issues calling each other sell-outs and morons. But at the Women’s March, mainstream Democrats from the suburbs could march two feet away from anarchists holding signs that read […]