Vice, “How Anarchists Helped Californian Fire Refugees in a Walmart Parking Lot”
byBefore the fire, the Walmart parking lot in Chico, California, was already a natural place for people to seek a kind of refuge if…
Anarchists In the News
Agency maintains an ongoing list of anarchism and anarchists discussed or mentioned in mainstream media outlets. Notable mentions are posted here in chronological order.
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The Washington Post, “Self-professed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. convicted of first-degree murder in car-ramming that killed one, injured dozens”
byAn avowed supporter of neo-Nazi beliefs who took part in the violent and chaotic white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in this city last…
The Daily Beast, “James Fields Found Guilty of Murdering Anti-Racism Protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville”
byJames Alex Fields Jr., the white nationalist accused of deliberately plowing his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during the 2017 Charlottesville white-nationalist rally,…
The Guardian, “Anti-fascists were stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally. Then police tried to charge them”
byCalifornia law enforcement pursued criminal charges against eight anti-fascist activists who were stabbed or beaten at a neo-Nazi rally while failing to prosecute anyone…
Newsweek, “California Police Tried to Charge Antifa Activists Stabbed at Neo-Nazi Rally”
byIn June 2016, a white supremacist rally marched through Sacramento in California. Met by anti-fascist counter-protesters, the event turned violent and several people—almost all…
Mashable, “Antifa Gritty gets his own children’s book”
byThe children are our future, and we must teach them well. That just got a lot easier thanks to a new children’s comic about…
Haaretz, “This Dark Hanukkah, a Lesson in Radical Optimism From My Anarchist Grandmother”
byThe darker it is at Hanukkah – the more vicious, callous, dystopic this world gets – the more clearly I can see the face of my…
BuzzFeed News, “Charlottesville Residents Created Their Own Niche Media In Reaction To The Unite The Right Violence. Now They’re Covering The Aftermath.”
byA year and a half ago, “Charlottesville” became shorthand for racist violence in the national press. Now, as James Fields Jr. stands trial for…
Merco Press, “Buenos Aires sealed off for G20; anarchists and anti capitalists pledge to stage protests”
byArgentine authorities say that Buenos Aires will be an armored city when world leaders arrive for this week’s G-20 summit. But security failures that…
The Guardian, “Liberté, Egalité, Gritté: how an NHL mascot became an antifa hero”
byLast week, a headline on neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer read like something from an alternate universe: “Alt-Right Icon Gritty Seeks to Follow Adolf…