New York Times, “Help Me Find Trump’s ‘Anarchists’ in Portland”
The president has his politically driven narrative. And then there’s reality. Nicholas Kristof, July 29, 2020 I’ve been on the front lines of the…
New York Times, “Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes”
When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable. By Tracy Ma, With Natalie Shutler, Written by Jonah Engel…
Mic, “How Black anarchists are keeping the protest movement alive”
Vanessa Taylor, July 29, 2020 With a series of uprisings gripping the United States, President Trump has not hidden his disdain for protesters. Beyond…
Shane Burley: If We Don’t Want Armed Feds Occupying Our Cities, We Must Hit the Streets
Truthout, July 27, 2020 On July 25, Day 58 of the continuous Portland, Oregon, Black Lives Matter protests, thousands of protesters swarmed the Justice…
USA Today, “Trump is on the prowl for enemies of the state in American cities. And who will stop him?”
In 1920, an honest federal official exposed outrageous raids on ‘radicals.’ One longs for an executive branch official with the guts to stand up…
Mawa Iqbal: Left-Wing Groups Take Up Arms in Name of Abolitionist John Brown
Groups In Kansas And Missouri Inspired By Civil Rights Push Flatland, July 23, 2020 On a recent Wednesday evening Renee Maxwell was giving a…
Oregon Live, “Anarchists’ provoke tear gas use during Portland protests, police tell Oregon lawmakers”
Everton Bailey Jr., July 19, 2020 High-ranking Portland police officials told state lawmakers they’ve tried to de-escalate violence at nightly downtown protests but a small group…
Shane Burley: Inside the battle for Portland with the independent journalists on the streets
As federal agents snatch protesters in unmarked vans, the reporters covering the Portland uprising are facing intense and unprecedented repression. Waging Nonviolence, July 18,…
Portland Mercury, “DHS Director Decries “Violent Anarchists” Taking Over Portland”
Alex Zielinski, July 16, 2020 The head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency overseeing federal officers’ response to protests in…
Mother Jones, “How a “Bunch of Badass Queer Anarchists” Are Teaming Up With Locals to Block a Pipeline Through Appalachia”
“People that grow up in places like this, seeing their environment destroyed, it stirs them, it causes people to want to get involved, and…