The Caswell Messenger (NC), “Protests in Pelham”
byMaking his way through the crowd was a man who said he was from North Carolina carrying a large red and black flag. “It’s…
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New York Daily News, “Beyond the alt-right, is Donald Trump’s America really about anarchy?”
byBut in the dangerous rise of the alt-right, we may be missing another storyline swirling around the zeitgeist, and it’s one that explains our…
BuzzFeed, “After Trump’s Win, Secure Messaging App Signal’s Downloads Increase 400%”
by“There has never been a single event that has resulted in this kind of sustained, day-over-day increase,” Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper…
KATU 2 (Portland), “Portland police: Officers accrue $592,816 in overtime pay during election protests”
byWhat started as a peaceful anti-Trump protest turned destructive when anarchists joined the nearly 4000-person march, smashing windows and defacing property in across Portland….
Al Jazeera, “Noam Chomsky on the new Trump era”
byIn a special UpFront interview, renowned US academic and public intellectual Noam Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the implications of a…
Washington Examiner, “Trump to meet with with fiery anti-Obama sheriff, 7 others on Monday”
byAmong them are Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who rose to prominence this year as an outspoken critic of the Black Lives Matter movement….
Westword (Denver), “Sole’s New Track “Three Way Fight” Addresses Politics of Protest in Denver and Beyond”
byWe didn’t do anything violent and we didn’t do anything that night that hadn’t been done at the previous march, but as soon as…
Daily Mail, “Donald Trump won the White House with less support from black and Hispanic voters than any president in 40 years”
byIn the wake of Trump’s victory, protesters on the left took to the streets by the thousands in cities across the country, in some…
The Guardian, “To vote, or not to vote? For many the answer is simply: why bother?”
byJones, an advocate for nonviolent protest and board member of an educational non-profit, said: “Being a difference maker is more than punching a ballot…
Los Angeles Times, “What Trump’s Win Means for Books”
byCritic at Large Viet Thanh Nguyen has written a fiery essay about the Democrats’ failure and our future. “Here’s what I have to say…