Bustle, “College Republicans Invite White Nationalists To Speak On Campus & Students Are Not Happy”
Others appeared far less tolerant of CUCR’s choice of speakers. The Anarchist Black, Brown, Indigenous Assembly (ABBIA), a New York City-based group that describes itself as a community of anarchist black, brown, and indigenous people fighting for black, brown, indigenous, queer, and trans liberation, has said it will not tolerate CUCR’s move to host what […]
CBS New York, “‘You Let Your Police Officers Down:’ Queens Woman Confronts De Blasio About Germany Trip”
“I don’t care about the trees,” she shouted. “Pay your police officers and stop spending it on money to go protest against our country.” She spoke with Kramer on Friday and continued to ask questions. “Why did you go to Germany? Why did you stand with the communists, the anarchists, the socialists when you’re supposed […]
Gothamist, “Your Guide To NYC Beaches, 2017”
Fort Tilden This strip of sand is the closest you’ll get to an anarchist commune, with the only authority in sight coming in the form of the very occasional park ranger coming by either car or horseback. Continue Reading
Bedford + Bowery, “50 Years Ago: The Summer of Love Brings Pot, Protests and Psychedelic Rock to the East Village”
“Since I had worked on an upstart alternative newspaper at Queens College, I gravitated to the offices of the East Village Other (EVO) where a ragtag bunch of anarchists were putting out a biweekly paper that The New York Times described as ‘a newspaper so countercultural that it made the Village Voice look like a […]
Gothamist, “A History of NYC Protest Songs, From Billie Holiday To Reagan Youth”
Reagan Youth was political from the very beginning, formed by Forest Hills-natives with a vision of “a loud, fast, anarchist, punk rock band that would expose the evils of society,” according to their website. A broad ambition, to be sure, but one that they remained committed to during the ten year period, beginning in 1980, […]
Gothamist, “Right-Wing Skinheads Attack Grad Students At LES Bar Over Antifascist Cellphone Sticker”
In an interview with the skinhead zine Backstreet Battalion, United Riot Records founder “Dennis Riot” said, “211 crew started in 1999 just a group of Skins [sic] who didn’t give a fuck and hated commie scum like rash [Red and Anarchist Skinheads, a left-wing skinhead group]. There’s [sic] members in most of the Oi! bands […]
San Francisco Chronicle, “Lower East Side reaching higher as destination”
If you want a sense of Bluestockings Books, let’s just say it has an uncommon number of volumes by Noam Chomsky. Also, there are three shelves devoted to anarchism. And the fiction section is divided into post-Colonial fiction, feminist fiction and general fiction — with the latter possessing the smallest number of books. It is […]
Bedford and Bowery, “From Anarchist Hangout to Bathhouse to Arcade: The Steamy History of 6 St. Marks”
On a chilly Thursday evening–January 5, 1911 to be exact–a mass of New York’s anarchists, socialists, and radicals were celebrating just 3 blocks north of St. Marks Place at Webster Hall. Prof. Bayard Boyesen of Columbia, and Leonard Abbott, the president of the newly formed Francisco Ferrer Association, along with Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, […]
New York Daily News, “How a deadly terrorist attack on Wall Street in 1920 still echoes today “
The Wall Street attack — which was, in effect, a prototype for thousands of car bombs to come around the world — remains officially unsolved. The hooves of the horse that drew the fatal wagon were blown off, and its shoes unsuccessfully examined for evidence. The perpetrator’s body was not among the dead, as he […]
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