Crimethinc: Anarchist Resistance to the Trump Inauguration: Understanding the Events of January 20, 2017
Two years have passed since the demonstrations against Donald Trump’s inauguration. Thanks to an epic legal struggle, all the charges have been resolved or dropped. Now we can discuss what there is to learn from the events of January 20 and the ensuing court cases. This article focuses on the march that took place on […]
J20 Protest Simulator
In November 2016, Donald Trump is elected President of the United States on an explicitly authoritarian, racist, and Islamophobic platform. This shocks you out of your Obama-induced slumber. Things are going to hell in the United States. A couple days after the election, you see a dramatic video calling for actions in Washington, DC on […]
Crimethinc: I Was a J20 Street Medic and Defendant: How We Survived the First J20 Trial and What We Learned along the Way
During the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, DC police arrested over 200 people and indiscriminately charged all of them with eight or more felonies apiece, hoping to set a precedent that would suppress street protest once and for all. Two years later, we are publishing a series of reflections on the events […]
Kim Kelly: This Eye-Opening New Documentary Spotlights the Overlooked Trial of Trump Protestors
As Donald J. Trump laid his hand on the Bible to be sworn in as President on January 20, 2017, the streets of Washington, D.C. were alight with revolutionary fire. Hundreds of protestors had flooded the capital that day as part of a coordinated action called by a coalition of local leftist and radical organizations, […]
The Nation, “The Dangers of Shunning ‘Bad’ Protesters”
Last weekend, leftists and liberals came out in force for the first anniversary of the deadly white-supremacist “Unite the Right” rally, marching, rallying, and protesting in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Washington, DC. In DC, where white nationalist Jason Kessler organized a laughable crowd of just a couple dozen far-right racists, several leftist contingents […]
Remaining J20 Cases Dismissed: Takeaways for Anarchists and our Social Movements
More than seventeen months after DC police “kettled” and arrested 234 protesters, journalists, medics, legal observers, and bystanders, subsequently charging them with several riot-related felonies, the Trump administration was forced to dismiss the remaining Inauguration Day (J20) cases. On Jan. 20, 2017, thousands of people protested the inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC and […]
Newsweek, “‘The Government’s Prosecution’ of Trump Inauguration Protesters ‘Should Scare the Daylights Out of Anyone Who Values Dissent,’ Says Defense Attorney”
Around the corner from the federal courthouse in downtown Washington where media crews have spent the past year recording the many comings and goings of President Donald Trump’s indicted associates, another, far less heralded legal struggle unfolded with arguably greater ramifications for American democracy than anything special counsel Robert Mueller discovers. This was the plight […]
The Intercept, “With Last Charges Against J20 Protesters Dropped, Defendants Seek Accountability for Prosecutors”
Last Friday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia dismissed charges against the 39 remaining J20 Inauguration Day protesters under indictment, bringing a close to a year-and-a-half-long saga marked by police aggression, prosecutorial overreach, and heartening displays of solidarity by the defendants and their supporters. “I was sitting in the front row of a […]
The Washington Post, “Federal prosecutors abruptly dismiss all 39 remaining Inauguration Day rioting cases”
Federal prosecutors on Friday dismissed rioting charges against all remaining defendants arrested after destructive Inauguration Day protests in the nation’s capital, bringing to a close a controversial case that led to allegations of government overreach. Prosecutors began filing paperwork Friday afternoon to formally drop the cases against 39 people who had been awaiting trial. The […]
Splinter, “Government Finally Drops Charges Against All Remaining J20 Protesters”
The final charges against the remaining activists arrested for their role in protests during President Donald Trump’s inauguration have been dropped, more than a year and a half after the group was arrested in Washington, DC. The rioting charges against the remaining 38 activists were dismissed by federal prosecutors on Friday, effectively ending the government’s […]