Catholic News Service, “Trump vows to keep fighting for travel ban blocked again by courts”
Along with anarchists dressed in black, Planned Parenthood supporters in bright pink hats and thousands of other Trump protesters, people of faith were on hand protesting Trump’s policies. Continue Reading
Vice, “Greece Is Cracking Down on the Anarchist Squats Giving Shelter to Refugees”
Demonstrators gathered outside the station, along with lawyers who the police forbade from entering. A green anarchist flag fluttered from the window of a detention cell on the top floor, held by a North African man who had been locked inside for nine months. Protesters marched in two separate rallies. Police shot tear gas. Fires […]
Vice, “Greece’s Anarchists Are Taking Better Care of Refugees Than the Government”
Imagine a neighborhood run by anarchists. It radiates from Exarcheia Square, an intersection of three streets, where trees hang the banner: until every animal cage is empty. until every prison cell has been destroyed. K-VOX, an anarchist bar, keeps watch from one corner. The neighborhood boasts an old, rich network of squats, leftist social centers, […]
The Herald-Star (West Virginia), “Anarchists planning rally to seek sanctuary city status for Wheeling”
The Eclosion Collective, an Ohio Valley anarchist group, suggested the idea by scheduling a 3 p.m. demonstration at 1500 Chapline St. The group is asking supporters of Wheeling becoming a sanctuary city to show up and seek action from Wheeling Council. Continue Reading
WTOV 9 (West Virginia), “After Wheeling mayor says no to sanctuary city movement, demonstrations will go on”
“This anarchist group is not Wheeling or the Ohio Valley,” he said. “I want Wheeling to be safe and the Ohio Valley to be safe. We don’t need people coming in here that have not been properly vetted.” Continue Reading
The News & Observer (NC), “Fighting the president’s falsehoods about immigrants”
When Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were falsely convicted of crimes in 1926, their powerful testimonies helped discredit widespread nativism and emboldened new immigrants to defend free speech and demand rights as citizens. Continue Reading
NorthJersey.com, “Lowry: They are still marching for a cause in Paterson”
As I watched the video at northjersey.com of last weekend’s rally and interfaith march for immigrants’ rights through downtown Paterson, it occurred to me that Bresci, or the ghost of Bresci, could be marching shoulder to shoulder with them. Big Bill Haywood or Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who were among the leaders of the 1913 Paterson […]
KUAR (Arkansas), “Arkansas Sanctuary Campus Defunding Bill Shot Down From All Sides”
“This is directed at the radical fringe, anarchist types that want to change our campuses form those decent places where people go to get an education into what we saw over the news at U.C. Berkeley,” Smith said referring to a recent protest at one of the nation’s top colleges. Continue Reading
The New Yorker, “What Happens to the Deported”
After an anarchist placed a bomb at the front door of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home, in Washington, D.C., the hysteria escalated and Palmer ordered the surveillance of supposed radical communities with ties to anarchist groups and the Communist Party, many of which were Russian immigrant organizations and associations. Continue Reading
NPR, “Trump Backers Want Ideology Test For Extreme Vetting”
In a broad sense, tests of attitudes aren’t unprecedented. Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, notes that an ideological test for newcomers is “deeply embedded” in U.S. history. The U.S. barred anarchists in 1903. During the Cold War, she says, “It was people who believed in communism. It’s still in […]