PBS Chicago, “Historical Happy Hour: A Toast to Emma Goldman”
byEmma Goldman was an anarchist, feminist and freethinker at a time when just talking about birth control was enough to get you imprisoned (and…
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CBS Chicago, “Great Places To Visit On Chicago’s West Side”
byHaymarket produce district. Chicagoans gathered in the streets to watch anarchist activists speak, from atop a freight wagon, about the violent death of workers…
New Republic, “How Trump Is Creating a Propaganda State”
byIn this, Trump and Loesch aren’t just trying to deceive their followers. They are reinforcing and expanding on what their supporters already believe, which…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “When music found an ‘Alternate’ home on Milwaukee’s lakefront — in 1971”
byThe Journal and Sentinel frequently referred to the new space as the “People’s Park,” and, the Journal reported on July 4, 1971, the Milwaukee…
The New Yorker, “James Cromwell’s Civil Disobedience”
byHe was arrested again a few months later, at the May Day protests in Washington, D.C., along with thousands of other people. Confronting a…
NBC News, “Antifa Violence is Ethical? This Author Explains Why”
byBRAY: It’s basically a politics or an activity of social revolutionary self defense. It’s a pan-left radical politics uniting communists, socialists, anarchists and various…
The Atlantic, “President Trump Pardons Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio”
byTrump’s pardon of Arpaio will likely rank among the most controversial exercises of the power. Other presidents have used it to absolve pirates, participants…
CTV News, “How Black Bloc activists have changed protests”
byIn terms of demographic makeup (class, gender, race), Black Blocs differ over time and from place to place. Black Bloc protesters might be anarchists,…
ABC 7 (DC), “Antifa, far-right clashes raise questions about violence as a political tool”
byThe Anti-fascist movement, or Antifa, have been part of the European political landscape since World War II. In recent decades, the group has predominantly…
98.1 (Kansas City), “Explaining antifa protests in the wake of Charlottesville”
by“The black bloc is not a group but an anarchist tactic — marching as a confrontational united force, uniformed in black and anonymized for…