San Francisco Chronicle, “Women’s March organizers plan July protest against the NRA”
The second video also addresses politicians and public figures who have spoken out against the first video, including activist DeRay McKesson and California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, the latter of whom Stinchfield links to the violent and anarchist-riddled UC Berkeley protests in the spring. Continue Reading
San Francisco Chronicle, “First step for Trump: Admit you’re powerless over Twitter”
First the Women’s March, and now A Day Without a Woman — thousands of people in the streets, and nary a broken window or anarchist bully in sight. Continue Reading
CNN Style, “From the streets to the runway: How to dress for a revolution”
A statement from the university placed the blame on “150 masked agitators” — members of an anarchist group known as the Black Bloc — who had escalated the otherwise peaceful protest, throwing rocks at police, hurling Molotov cocktails and smashing windows. Continue Reading
Chicago Tribune, “The marches were uplifting, but what happens now?”
But not all protests have been successful, he said. An example of a failed one, he said, is the Chicago 1886 Haymarket Riot, which was intended to address the labor unions’ desire for an eight hour workday. A bombing by an anarchist resulted in the death of police officers, protesters and the execution of the […]
North Coast Journal (CA), “The Largest March in Eureka History”
Humboldt Grassroots, a local anarchist group, sent a press release to the Journal saying it had “blocked the road as an act of resistance against the violent systems in power.” Continue Reading
Teen Vogue, “The History of Protest Hats Including Pussyhats”
What the pussyhat wearers were saying was, to paraphrase the American anarchist and feminist icon Emma Goldman: “If I can’t laugh, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” Continue Reading
Observer Tribune, “Area women join thousands to march against Trump plans”
She also said that she was not overly concerned about security and didn’t know about the limited vandalism by self-professed anarchists until she got home. Continue Reading
Salon, “Trump’s female supporters want to ‘give the man a chance'”
Anti-fascist anarchists in black masks—most of them male, I might add—burned a limousine, to the delight of Fox and Breitbart News. I have not seen of any reports of arrests at Sunday’s much larger female dominated march. Continue Reading
Washington Blade, “Outside Trump’s bubble, resistance looms”
Anarchists on Friday had disrupted peaceful protests and clashed with police. By contrast on Saturday, a friend watched a pair of Trump supporters in their red hats walk through the crowd without receiving so much as a mean glance. Continue Reading
Nashville Scene, “What I Saw at the D.C. March (And What I Must Do)”
There were no arrests, no smarmy “anarchists” (bored white boys) looking to make trouble. And thank goodness, too — the crowd was so large and so dense, that one glass bottle tossed into the crowd would have ended in a stampede. Continue Reading