This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Act Out! [119] - G20: View from the Streets + A Pipeline Fight from the Tree-Tops
We take you to the streets of the recent G20 protests in Hamburg where hundreds of thousands of people stood, sat and protested as law enforcement once again made clear who it is that cops are meant to serve and protect.
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Photos: Extremists—from right and left—clash in Berkeley, again
Police made 20 arrests and reported at least eleven injured, with seven needing to go to the hospital, at Saturday’s so-called Patriots Day rally in downtown Berkeley.
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First Up Against The Wall: How Witch Hunts Hurt The (Leftist) Cause
Not all those who voted for Trump, Brexit or right wing conservatives and call themselves “reformers” are in fact hateful racists. Not all who oppose Antifa are Nazis. Not all who criticize the “resistance” are its adversaries.
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Letter to the American Left: Antifa Is Not Your Friend
The self-proclaimed anti-fascists of “Antifa” are a millstone around the neck of the political left and possibly a greater danger to progressive and liberal values than even Donald Trump himself.
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Act Out! [97] - Our Streets: The Story from the Front Lines & How We Fight
This week on Act Out!, in a special hourlong episode, we not only fill you in on the actions from the streets of D.C. last weekend, we more importantly discuss, analyze and project a path forwards. Local D.C.
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Hedges: Jeremy Hammond and the Revolutionaries In Our Midst
Hammond appears for sentencing Friday in Manhattan and could face 10 years in prison for hacking the security firm Stratfor and exposing its infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of nonviolent protesters for corporations and the security state.
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Months After Fierce Opposition to Fare Hikes, Brazil's Protests Are Evolving
A complex mixture of Anonymous supporters, Black Bloc activists and middle class conservatives took to the streets, reflecting the changing social movement.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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Come Together, Right Now
As activists, it's time for us to set aside our individual squabbles and agree on a general set of principles.
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Chicago Dispatch: Vets Toss Medals of Honor, Call NATO Summit a Disgrace
“I'm doing this here, now, because our enemy is not overseas, our enemy is in the corporate boardrooms, right over there in those NATO conference rooms, right here at home,” said a veteran.