The Daily Show, “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right”
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right Continue Reading
SF Gate, “Pelosi calls for the prosecution of ‘violent’ antifa members”
The San Francisco Democrat was quick to separate antifa from the Democratic Party, telling the Denver’ Post’s editorial board on Wednesday: “You’re not talking about the far left of the Democratic Party — they’re not even Democrats. A lot of them are socialist or anarchist or whatever.” Continue Reading
The Atlantic, “Why Liberalism Disappoints”
Frankfurter worked tirelessly to save the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti from the accusations that sent them to death row. He eloquently transformed their fate into the quintessential liberal crusade of the ’20s—and was apoplectic that when he tried to enlist Lippmann in his effort, he struggled to rouse him from his icy evenhandedness. Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “Activists, wary of health-care bill pause, plan more protests against proposal”
The alliance between elected Democrats and protest groups, fragile just a few months ago, has strengthened even as protests have become more disruptive. In Georgia’s special House election, Republican groups spent millions of dollars linking the Democratic candidate to “the resistance,” with images of Women’s March protesters seeping into footage of anarchists smashing windows. Continue […]
San Francisco Chronicle, “Women’s March organizers plan July protest against the NRA”
The second video also addresses politicians and public figures who have spoken out against the first video, including activist DeRay McKesson and California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, the latter of whom Stinchfield links to the violent and anarchist-riddled UC Berkeley protests in the spring. Continue Reading
New York Magazine, “Paul Ryan Super-PAC Tries to Tie Jon Ossoff to Kathy Griffin Video”
Yet he’s lumped in with her, along with images of Michael Moore and sundry window-breaking, car-burning, trashcan-spilling anarchists, as “angry liberals” who “have gone too far” in their determination to foist Ossoff on the clean-living suburbanites of the sixth district. The fact that Ossoff has nothing to do with any of these people— certainly not […]
San Francisco Chronicle, “First step for Trump: Admit you’re powerless over Twitter”
First the Women’s March, and now A Day Without a Woman — thousands of people in the streets, and nary a broken window or anarchist bully in sight. Continue Reading
Cosmopolitan, “Let the Hatemongers Speak”
When anarchist “black bloc” agitators showed up at Berkeley to protest Yiannopoulos, they set fires, hurled rocks at police, broke windows, and did $100,000 worth of damage. They did get Yiannopoulos’s speech canceled — but they also made headlines across the country, spreading Yiannopoulos’s ideas much further than they would have been disseminated had most […]
Splice Today, “Anarchists for Peace and Free Speech”
Clothed in rage and black balaclavas, anarchists have shown up at anti-Trump protests and campus actions against right-wing figures, often as the most or the only militant force. They burned a limo and broke windows near the White House during the inauguration. They were at Berkeley, agitating against right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and at NYU […]
The Sacramento Bee, “Donald Trump ignited a massive protest movement. Will it work?”
Backlash from both conservatives and liberals is particularly aimed at the “black blocs,” groups of more militant protesters dressed in anonymous all-black who often have ties to anarchist or “anti-fascist” groups. They vandalized property and assaulted some opponents on Inauguration Day and at tangential demonstrations, like a recent UC Berkeley rally that shut down a […]