5 Tips for Dealing With Media on the Street at an Antifa Action
There are many questions to consider when deciding whether to talk to mainstream news reporters while on the street at an antifa action. What media outlet wants to conduct the interview? How are they likely to construe your message? How are you likely to be viewed by the media outlet’s audience? Are you the best […]
New Republic, ““Antifa Isn’t A Hobby Or A Fad”: A Q&A With Mark Bray”
It’s just a cross-section of the radical left, especially anarchists and anti-authoritarians, and beyond that it’s hard to draw too many more conclusions. I spoke to people of different races and genders and occupations. It does tend to be on the younger side but that’s true of most social movements in general. Continue Reading
Vox, “‘White supremacists are more afraid of us than we are of them.'”
The way I think of anarchism is that it refuses to recognize an authority that doesn’t deserve to be recognized. So I’m still comfortable supporting government so long as that government is just and upholds righteous principles. Continue Reading
Meet the Press (NBC), “Is Violence Ever Acceptable in the Face of Hate Groups?”
Richard Cohen, President of The Southern Poverty Law Center, and Mark Bray, Author, “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook” debate the tactics used by white nationalist counter-protesters. Continue Reading
IndyWeek (NC), “In “Resistance to Political Repression,” Local Activist Katie Yow Will Refuse Grand Jury Order”
“I have been an anarchist for nearly half my life. My convictions as an anarchist inform every part of my life, and being part of the anarchist movement gives me all the strength I need to resist this subpoena,” says Yow, an activist and former teacher and bookstore proprietor. Continue Reading
Fox News, “WATCH: Watters Spars With Protester from Violent ANTIFA Group”
Kevin from the Boston ANTIFA branch penned an open letter on the anarchist site ItsGoingDown.org urging liberals and progressives to violence to take down President Trump. The letter claims a rise in “far-Right violence, murder, and arson attacks, which have been almost completely ignored by both the media and the Trump administration.” Continue Reading
Washingtonian, “Meet the Guy Looking for a Roommate Who Wants to ‘Make Petworth Great Again'”
Would you under any circumstances live with “a damn commie”? T: I actually have a fair number of Marxist, Anarchist, and Maoist friends. (See: American University). They’re smart, well-meaning, decent and fun people with whom I share a number of salient disagreements. I would live with any of them in a heartbeat. They are Marxists, Anarchists, […]
Free Speech TV, “State In Our Minds + Scott Crow on Anarchy, Building & Being Ungovernable”
This week on Act Out! The longer and second part of our sit down interview with anarchist, author and organizer scott crow who dives into the many facets of anarchy, the “growing up” of anarchy in the USA, the power of building vs. resisting, reactionary politics and more. But first, a little set up for […]
Vice, “These Black Bloc Anarchists Don’t Care What You Think of Them”
Clay, a skinny, intense man whose voice quivers and rises with passion when he speaks, told me anarchist beliefs “are rooted in the desire for a stateless and fascism-free society, and are defending marginalized communities from a long history of white supremacy asserting itself. We want to destroy the status quo and are willing to […]
The Portland Mercury, “Anarchist Interviews, Part 2: ‘May Day Was a Complete Success'”
I will never not be poor, I will always be scraping to get by. That’s fucked. Why should I have to scrape by when Donald Trump’s kids don’t? What did they do differently than me other than be born with wealth? Continue Reading