Boston Prosecutors Invoke Law Used Against Anarchists to Charge Protesters

From The New York Times

Four Boston police officers were injured in a confrontation near Boston Common with more than 200 protesters who the police said had refused to clear the roadway. Those arrested ranged in age from 19 to 28 and included students from at least two area colleges. All were to be charged with inciting a riot, a felony charge that is also known as “promotion of anarchy,” with origins in early 20th-century fears of anarchist violence.

They Won’t Let Sacco and Vanzetti Die

From The Harvard Crimson

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have been arrested in time on the third floor of the Community Church of Boston.

They are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought to disrupt it. In the Church, their memory has found a temporary resting place.

Faces of the Boston Anarchist Bookfair

From The Berkeley Beacon By Ryan Yau, Nov. 3

Since 2011, the Boston Anarchist Bookfair has provided a physical space for anarchism and wider leftist thought, hosting book retailers, vendors, and organizational groups. This year’s fair was held at the Cambridge Community Center on Oct. 19 and 20.

Boston Anarchist Bookfair 2024 is on the Way! Oct. 19-20

From Boston Anarchist Bookfair

BABF 2024 is on the way!

Get ready for the 2024 Boston Anarchist Bookfair on October 19-20 at the Cambridge Community Center, where we’re hosting a bookfair celebrating anarchism and its many forms. It’s the spot where authors, publishers, activists, and community gather for one of the longest running radical bookfairs in Boston.

Got questions or itching to get involved? Hit us up. See you there!

Report From Our ‘Turning the Tide’ Study Series in Boston

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

Through the Fall and Winter of 2023, the Boston Local of Black Rose/Rosa Negra (BRRN) hosted a four-part discussion series on our program: Turning the Tide. The first collective effort of the newly reconstituted Boston Local, the discussion series brought 15 to 25 people to each of the meetings, with 40 or more individuals participating over the life of the series. Our goals, according to Local member Matt Tracy, were to “build connections with strangers and organizers surrounding our shared political questions, thoughts, and goals – and also try to come to a higher level of thinking and reflection regarding the program itself.” The series resulted in dozens of potential members interested in joining the Federation, a network of anarchist militants forming around us, and new local sectoral organizing projects.

Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches

From Empty Hands History

“Feminism Practices What Anarchism Preaches”: Anarcha-Feminism in the 20th Century (Panel Recording)

I recently organized an online panel at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair on November 14th (2021), which was recorded and uploaded to Youtube. My own talk, which begins around 41:20, is titled “‘We’re Pro-Choice and We Riot’: Anarcha-Feminism in Love and Rage (1989-98).” It is based on research and interviews that I have been conducting for my dissertation on North American anarchism in the late 20th century.

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