Capitol Hill Times (Seattle), “Brush up on your Shakespeare”
Alt-right vs. anarchists: The vendetta between hot-blooded Black Bloc and Proud Boy bravos is escalating from fists to knives and guns. This way madness lies. Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75”
He became a leader of the squatter movement in the 1970s, directing homeless Londoners to available space through his agency Ruff Tuff Cream Puff. He also helped create the Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia, an anarchist country within a country, named after a nearby street, Freston Road. Located in the Notting Hill neighborhood, it issued […]
The Washington Post, “Heathcote Williams, British playwright and countercultural giant, dies at 75”
Heathcote Williams, a British playwright, poet, anarchist and magician who — in addition to founding a secessionist state with a group of London squatters — wrote one of the most acclaimed plays of the 1970s, along with best-selling poems about dolphins and whales, died July 1 at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 75. […]
Ozarks Public Radio, “Real-Life Court Case Inspires Wild Comedy in ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist'”
According to director Gretchen Teague, “What’s funny about this show, I think, is that it’s based in reality. There was this case of this anarchist who is questioned by police, and then accidently fell out the window (to his death).” Nathan Shelton indicates the “accidently” part should definitely be in quotation marks. “The ensuing trial […]