Pacific Standard, “Inside the Occupy ICE Movement Sweeping the Nation”
Activists behind the movement say their ranks are swelling by the day with people opposed to the White House’s raids and separation of immigrant families. Rights advocates across the nation plan to take to the streets Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant families, taking aim specifically at the crisis at America’s borders and […]
Daily Beast, “Occupy Protests Freeze ICE Operations From Oregon to Manhattan”
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has put some New York City operations on hold while a protest outside Manhattan’s main ICE facility stretched into its fifth day. On Thursday, demonstrators set up camp outside a downtown ICE processing center that houses an immigration court and a temporary immigrant detention facility. By Friday, ICE was smuggling detainees […]
Salon, “Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global fallout still matters”
But fairly soon, it emerged that the two men were not anyone’s idea of typical bandits. Rather, they were active in Italian anarchist circles who believed that capitalism and states were oppressive and should be overthrown by revolution — and, if necessary, a violent one. At the time, most Americans lived in horror of anarchists […]
New York Daily News, “The 1920 Wall Street bombing: Authorities blamed agitators for the deadly explosion amid the first Red Scare”
Authorities kept unmasking Red plots all through 1921. NEW YORK ANARCHISTS REORGANIZED, the papers said. REDS OF AMERICA UNITED UNDER ONE HEAD. AGENTS SOWING CLASS HATRED, DISSENSION, SABOTAGE. One million immigrants continued to arrive in the U.S. every year. At least 15 million more, warned U.S. Immigration Commissioner Frederick Wallis, were certain to come unless […]
The Daily Beast, “Long Island’s O.G. Anti-Immigrant Politician”
The list of what are at least intemperate remarks made by Levy is long. He called a respected immigrants rights organization a group of “communists” and “anarchists.” At one event he joked about deporting the kitchen staff. Most famously, he decried “anchor babies” and said falsely that a local hospital was on the verge of […]
Washington Examiner, “Stephen Miller is right: Lazarus’ immigration poem is not US law”
Thus paupers were not allowed, or elderly people with no assets or relatives; there was even a political test, for “anarchists,” which is not so surprising considering that in the 1890-1901 period anarchist terrorists murdered the president of France, the empress of Austria, and the president of the United States. Continue Reading
Salon, “A radical new approach to the immigration “problem”: Beyond left and right, Trumpism and neoliberalism”
It was in this period that the racial exclusion started going hand in hand with all sorts of exclusions that had not been on the books before, such as prostitutes, subversives — added after the anarchist Leon Czolgosz (who was actually born in Michigan) assassinated President William McKinley, and persecuted especially during and after World […]
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 […]