The American Prospect, “The Long Arc of Protest”
byUnlike social movements in the past, she argues, today’s fast-forming, fast-dissolving movements are liable to “tactical freeze,” in which they fail to develop the…
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The Atlantic, “The Rise of the Violent Left”
bySince antifa is heavily composed of anarchists, its activists place little faith in the state, which they consider complicit in fascism and racism. They…
The Washington Post, “Activists, wary of health-care bill pause, plan more protests against proposal”
byThe alliance between elected Democrats and protest groups, fragile just a few months ago, has strengthened even as protests have become more disruptive. In…
KALW 97.1 San Francisco, “Your Call: Media coverage of white nationalists in the US & the firing of Bill O’Reilly”
byWe’ll also talk about last weekend’s violent street clashes between white-nationalists, anarchists, and local activists in Berkeley. How did the media frame the protest…
Washington Examiner, “UC-Berkeley: The place where free speech ends and violence begins”
byWhen the smoke cleared, approximately 1,500 Berkley students, self-named Antifa “activists” (short for Anti-Fascists – yes, more irony) and “Black Bloc” anarchists were blamed…
SF Gate, “Arrests made as protesters clash at pro-Trump rally in Berkeley”
byTrump protesters and anarchists waving red-and-black flags, marched around the park, periodically stopping to clash with the Trump supporters. Continue Reading
Pacific Standard Magazine, “Tactical Lessons From the Civil Rights Movement”
byProperty destruction — anarchists sometimes jokingly call it “smashy smashy” — gets media attention and can shut down a fascist recruiting party, but broken glass and fire sometimes…
Golden Gate Xpress, “Black bloc tactics become prevalent in Bay Area protests”
byAntifa, a play on the word anti-fascist, is a mindset based in anti-racism and against extreme right-wing politics. Black bloc is a protest strategy,…
Foreign Policy, “From Mother Jones to Middlebury: The Problem and Promise of Political Violence in Trump’s America”
byAnarchists burn limos because limo owners burn the planet. The miners strike because the company robs and breaks them. The streets of Ferguson explode…
Cosmopolitan, “Let the Hatemongers Speak”
byWhen anarchist “black bloc” agitators showed up at Berkeley to protest Yiannopoulos, they set fires, hurled rocks at police, broke windows, and did $100,000…