The Cut (NY Mag), “Why Manic Panic Is Still Cool”
The punk scene was in full swing and the East Village was inarguably at the heart of it. Record stores and clubs sprouted from the old hippie storefronts, even as Hare Krishnas in Tompkins Square Park were arrested for playing their bongo music too loudly. Within a few years the park would become such a […]
RT, “11 people arrested at NYU during clashes protesting conservative speaker”
Even President Donald Trump weighed in on the incidents, condemning them on Twitter Friday morning as “professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters.” Continue Reading
The Villager, “‘No ban! No wall!’ thousands cry at Battery protest”
Black Bloc-type anarchists joined Sunday’s protest in The Battery against the travel ban. Not surprisingly, the anarchists do not support the concept of national borders. Continue Reading
Gothamist, “Port Authority Cop Probed For Applauding Violence Against Anti-Trump Protesters”
ProPublica reports that Brian Faustina, a 22-year veteran of the Port Authority Police Department, shared the video of an altercation between black bloc anarchists and a man who said he was trying to get to work on January 23rd. His caption, according to the site: “Grow up bitches and get a job.” Continue Reading
Time, “Congress Tightened Immigration Laws 100 Years Ago. Here’s Who They Turned Away”
Excluded from entry in 1917 were not only convicted criminals, chronic alcoholics and people with contagious diseases, but also people with epilepsy, anarchists, most people who couldn’t read and almost everyone from Asia, as well as laborers who were “induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, […]
CBS New York, “May Day Marked With Freddie Gray Rally, March In Union Square,” May 1, 2015
May Day Marked With Freddie Gray Rally, March In Union Square CBS New York, May 1, 2015 By 8 p.m., the marchers were in Foley Square. They represented many causes, but an anarchist group holding a banner reading, “Make them pay for Freddie Gray” was briefly seen leading the march. READ MORE
New York Post, “Anarchists target Thanksgiving Day Parade,” November 27, 2014
Anarchists target Thanksgiving Day Parade New York Post, November 27, 2014 Anarchists plotted on Wednesday to disrupt the Thanksgiving Day Parade — feeling emboldened after cops allowed them to run free on major roadways like the FDR Drive and the West Side Highway, The Post has learned. “The police aren’t going to arrest us and […]