Williamette Week, “Black Bloc Protesters Hurl Pepsi Cans at Police, Set Newspaper Boxes on Fire in the Portland Street”

Portland’s annual organized labor marches have also become a recurring excuse for confrontation between the heavily geared-up Police Bureau and masked anarchists known as the “Black Bloc,” who this year dragged newspaper boxes onto the light-rail tracks to make a bonfire, and traded projectiles with riot police—Pepsi cans and smoke bombs going one direction, and noise grenades the other.

Continue Reading

Author

  • Agency promotes contemporary anarchist perspectives and practices through commentary on current events, media relations, and educational campaigns.

    View all posts