OPB, “‘What If They Want You Dead?’ Leftists Bear Arms In Self-Defense”
With the threat of right-wing violence on the rise, some activists on the left are taking a page out of the 1960s civil rights movement: armed self-defense. At Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge Women’s March in January, Ross Eliot brought up the rear, more concerned with what might be happening behind the group than keeping pace […]
Reuters, “Atlanta Gym Owner Defends ‘No Cops’ Rule After Death Threats”
Chambers, who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and describes himself politically as “somewhere between an eco-anarchist and a Marxist-Leninist,” said he would not call the police in any circumstances. He also disapproved of U.S. military interventions abroad. Continue Reading
Fox News, “Chicago ‘Antifa’ Plans to Open ‘Self-Defense Gym’ to Fight ‘White Nationalism’ in Trump’s ‘AmeriKKKa'”
According to Heat Street, the Haymaker Collective, which is said to be named after an 1880s anarchist riot, plans to open the gym to let their members train for any impending scuffles. However, the outlet reported that the training regimen is anything but aggressive. Continue Reading
The Cooper Point Journal, “Police Program to Shed Light on Campus Safety”
There are some self defense classes offered by the CRC or the Black Cottonwood Collective, an anarchist student group, but there are not part of the Safer Steps program. Brown stated that there is currently an officer training so they can provide self defense and awareness classes in the future. Brown said that those classes […]