Al Jazeera, “Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march”
The video followed the black-clad anarchists and anti-fascists as they marched through the streets, periodically chanting: “Whose streets? Our streets.” In other parts, they sang: “One, two, three, f*** the bourgeoisie. Four, five, six, f*** the bourgeoisie.” Others screamed “f*** capitalism” as they launched projectiles and swung bars at the windows of a Bank of […]
Mic.com, “Meet Lucinda Franks, the once-youngest female Pulitzer Prize winner “
Though Franks’ first assignments were on the “beauty contest and dog show beat,” she soon transitioned to more serious fare after a trip with fellow anarchists to Northern Ireland. Continue Reading
The Stranger, “What Americans Can Learn from Badass Russian Dissident Reporter Victoria Lomasko”
Several years ago, Lomasko says, she and other writers were looking for a venue to launch an anarchist newspaper called Volya, which means “Will” in Russian. A bookstore owner offered up his store for the event. The very next day, the police showed up: “Do you want to have a bookstore or do you want […]
The Washington Post, “Oxford American celebrates its hard-won 25th anniversary”
In the past year, we have published stories about Burmese refugees in rural Georgia; coal miners who are struggling to make ends meet in Harlan County, Kentucky; anarchists in Palm Beach County; and migrant workers who died in the little-known Hawk’s Nest Tunnel disaster in West Virginia (the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history).” Continue […]
USA Today, “Journalists at Inaugural protests charged with felonies”
The blurring line between activists and activist journalists may be a factor in what happens next. Slay Horse also calls himself an anarchist on his Twitter feed (@huntedhorse) and was documenting the protest. The Committee to Protect Journalists mentioned just three of the six journalists — Engel, Rubinstein and Cantú in its appeal; PEN America mentioned them and […]
Wired, “Anonymous’ Barrett Brown Is Free—and Ready to Pick New Fights”
Of all those books, he found particular inspiration in the autobiography of Emma Goldman, the anarcho-communist agitator who served two prison terms in the 1890s and 1910s, and was eventually deported to Soviet Russia by J. Edgar Hoover’s Justice Department. Her life, he says, serves as a reminder that a mere single prison stint doesn’t […]