The Guardian, “This refugee squat represents the best and worst of humanity”
On 26 April 2016, the same month the EU-Turkey deal trapped 60,000 refugees in Greece, migrant solidarity activists broke the locks on City Plaza, a shuttered hotel in Athens’ anarchist Exarchia neighborhood, and gave 400 stranded people a home. Over the next year, City Plaza grew into the best known of over a dozen squats […]
The Washington Post, “Trump’s travel ban is built on a law meant to ‘protect’ the U.S. from Jews and communists”
The new language would grant the president the discretionary authority “to suspend any and all immigration whenever he finds such action to be desirable in the best interest of the country,” beyond the normal excludable classes of aliens such as criminals, paupers, anarchists and the mentally and physically infirm. Continue Reading
North County Public Radio (NY), “One side fears threat from sharia law, the other side fears fascism”
Many of the people on the anti-Trump side of the street wore masks and carry red and black flags, the colors of communism and anarchism. I asked one of the marchers why he hides his identity. “I have personally been targeting numerous times by neo-Nazis who have posted my address, phone number and pictures of […]
IndyWeek (NC), “Anti-Sharia Activists and Militia Members Protested in Raleigh Saturday. They Were Vastly Outnumbered.”
Around noon, some 250 counterprotesters, including Muslims and other people of faith, anarchists, and communists, converged at the southeast corner of the Capitol grounds. Yelling at the top of their lungs, the counterprotesters drowned out the speaker at the anti-sharia rally, while facing patriot militia members outfitted in biker and military dress holding American flags. […]
The Stranger, “See Nate Gowdy’s Photos from Saturday’s “March Against Sharia” and Counterprotest”
City employees, candidates for office, Antifa protesters, anarchists, socialists, and others showed up to denounce the “March Against Sharia.” Continue Reading
Bangor Daily News (ME), “Anti-Muslim activists march in numerous cities across the United States”
“We’re here protecting their rights, and they’re trying to shut us down!” Pax Hart, the organizer of the New York City rally told his audience, referring to the gathering of hundreds of leftist activists and masked anarchists across the street. “It’s insane!” Continue Reading
Al Jazeera, “Anti-Muslim marches held in several US cities”
In response, the Metropolitan Anarchists Coordinating Council (MACC) staged a noise demonstrations with hopes of drowning out anti-Muslim chants. “They have no intention of encouraging free speech,” Marisa Holmes, a spokesperson for MACC, told Al Jazeera by telephone. Continue Reading
Forbes, “Immigration And Isolationism – We’ve Been Here Before”
The act also created a literacy test for immigrants and banned a broad group of “undesirables” including “epileptics,” “imbeciles,” “feeble-minded persons,” “idiots,” “political radicals,” “anarchists,” “polygamists,” “paupers,” “contract laborers,” “persons being mentally or physically defective,” “persons with constitutional psychopathic inferiority,” and “vagrants.” Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Anarchists Fill Services Void Left by Faltering Greek Governance”
“People trust us because we don’t use the people as customers or voters,” Mr. Sagris said. “Every failure of the system proves the idea of the anarchists to be true.” Continue Reading
Southern California Public Radio, “How did May Day become a day for immigrant rights marches?”
The incident was tied to the anarchist movement of the time — one reason the remembrance never took off in the United States, said Rivera-Salgado. Lawmakers instead established Labor Day on the first Monday of September as a national holiday in 1894. Continue Reading