Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Eyewitness 1892: Attack on Frick hurts Homestead strike”
The shooter, an anarchist named Alexander Berkman, also stabbed the chairman of the Carnegie steel company with a homemade dagger. Frick survived but Berkman’s attempted assassination of the industrial magnate turned public opinion against the men who were occupying the Carnegie works in Homestead. Continue Reading
Metro, “Who you gonna call? A real-life ghostbuster”
“The history of spiritualism in America ties into the history of the suffragette movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, the anarchist movement,” says Hendrix. “So many people get hung up on the question of whether these mediums were actually talking to spirits or committing fraud, but if you ignore that question you’re still left […]
The New York Times, “The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy”
Over the centuries, the strange geology of the marble mountains has produced an equally strange human community — strange even by the standards of Italy’s fractious regional subcultures. The people there live in white towns, breathing white dust, speaking their own dialects, nursing their own politics. There is a proud history, in and around Carrara, […]
ABC Oakland, CA, “I-Team: Oakland building fire appears to fit string of suspected arsons”
Some workers in hard hats told us they suspect the motive was the use of non-union labor. Some neighbors believed anarchists set the blaze. Continue Reading
CBS Pittsburgh, “Renowned Actor Commemorates 125th Anniversary Of Battle Of Homestead”
Two weeks later Frick would survive an assassination attempt after being shot in his downtown office by the anarchist Alexander Berkman — sympathy for the workers diminished, the governor sent in the state militia and the union was broken. But rather than dusty, old history, Rylance says the battle was over machines replacing labor — […]