State of the US Anarchist Movement?

[ellipsis]

I am curious to hear about the anarchist "scene" in different parts of the US. The SF Bay Area is full of them and I am becoming increasingly familiar with the anarchist/radical scene here, which I am guessing is among the most vibrant in the country. Portland and NYC have strong anarchist presences from what I can gather. Other places?

[Paulappaul]

Haha Portland has a pathetic Anarchist scene. My experience with Seattle and Olympia Anarchists are even worse, but at least they get shit done. Anarchism in America is exactly how you define it, a "Scene" not an actual movement for Social Change.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

It has never recovered from the Haymarket Tragedy. Although you can claim the U.S. birthed the "Chicago Idea" (what would eventually evolve into Syndicalism), it has stagnated since the 1890s or so.
Some people like George Woodcock have said the ideas of anarchism have had renewed interest since the early 90s, but the U.S. Anarchist scene is still quite small. Plus, we're too scattered from each other.
If you do want a small scene, it seems places like NYC, Chicago, and Portland are the way to go. The Twin Cities IWW (Minnesota) is probably the most active branch in the country, and really getting work done, so anarchism could have a presence up there as well.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I heard there was some organized anarchist group out in Modesto that is more than five people with an actual communist ideology. But I really know nothing about them other than that.

[Summerspeaker]

Here in Albuquerque you have a few queer anarchists and sympathizers in the UNM American Studies program, Food Not Bombs, the Christian anarchists connected with the Catholic Worker house, La Raza Unida party, a tiny IWW presence, and some anarcho-punks/various other scattered folks who might use the label. La Raza Unida can turn out the most folks, but only on occasion. There's lots of bad blood between both groups and individuals.

[Revolutionary_Change]

I don't know if you're looking for strictly anarchist groups, but I would check out the Organization for a Free Society. While not proclaiming themselves to be "anarchists," They have a libertarian-communist approach and working with grassroots community organizing in a few locations around the nation including New York and Ann Arbor.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Here in Albuquerque you have a few queer anarchists and sympathizers in the UNM American Studies program, Food Not Bombs, the Christian anarchists connected with the Catholic Worker house, La Raza Unida party, a tiny IWW presence, and some anarcho-punks/various other scattered folks who might use the label. La Raza Unida can turn out the most folks, but only on occasion. There's lots of bad blood between both groups and individuals.
I want to go down there.

[Bardo]

There's not alot going on in Florida either. Tampa and Orlando have functioning FnB chapters, but there's not really an anarchist presence. A regional WSA contact in north Florida tells me that there are a handful of members scattered throughout the state, and that there is a larger concentration of anarchist sympathizers in the Miami area.

Maybe my ear isn't exactly to the ground but there doesn't seem to be alot of activity in my state.

[Summerspeaker]

I want to go down there.

Let me know if you ever do. I'll show you around, introduce you to folks, and share the little that I have. It's all about community, solidarity, and mutual aid.

[The Douche]

I heard there was some organized anarchist group out in Modesto that is more than five people with an actual communist ideology. But I really know nothing about them other than that.

Modesto Anarcho produces a zine as their main focus. They also have a social space called the firehouse. There have been members of the MAC that post on here in the past. They were loosely affiliated with RAAN.

http://www.modestoanarcho.org/

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Modesto Anarcho produces a zine as their main focus. They also have a social space called the firehouse. There have been members of the MAC that post on here in the past. They were loosely affiliated with RAAN.

http://www.modestoanarcho.org/
Thanks, I'll have to check them out one of these days. I actually learned about an event I could go to tomorrow, thanks for bringing this site to my attention.

[RedJanitor]

Haha Portland has a pathetic Anarchist scene. My experience with Seattle and Olympia Anarchists are even worse, but at least they get shit done. Anarchism in America is exactly how you define it, a "Scene" not an actual movement for Social Change.

I think that Paul's comment on the state of Portland anarchists is sorta correct. It should be noted that there are alot of anarchists in this town who have nothing to do with the "scene" and like most people find it completely alienating for many reasons. We also have a local IWW branch, which is very large and active, that many anarchists in this town are involved with.

Anarchists in Portland can hardly be considered a homogeneous group. So often we are all lumped into a single group, "The Anarchists" , when in reality we're just a bunch of people who really have nothing in common politically or personally besides the fact we label ourselves as anarchists. I think alot of times that label creates a false sense of unity, that I think in the long run is an actual barrier to organizing.

[Gorra Negra]

I think the whole term "scene" describes what MOST of the anarchist in Ratlanta are. A trend, usually punks that try really really hard to be political but at the end don't truly believe in social change nor want to work for it but rather use anarchy as a form of saying "I'm rebellious"...and cool.

[syndicat]

there may be quite a few anarchists here in the bay area, but there are many internal divisions and they are not well organized, and few have any orientation to workplace organizing. there are some meeting spaces, like station 40,which has monthly salons, and some other periodic events, but little ongoing organization.

[ellipsis]

I guess I should clarify. By "scene," i really meant movement.

Here in the Bay Area we have A LOT of FnB, plus Homes not Jails regularly occupying buildings and this past valentines day causing a federal building to be locked down, SanFran Solidarity Network (new but promising), UA in the Bay, who just held an anarchist general assembly, a recent series of "anti-cut" actions put on by an affinity group dubbed "Bay of Rage" by the media, regular anarchist salons and reading groups, visiting authors from around the world having lectures (TIC included), anarchist publishers (AK and PM press), a number of squats, infoshops and collective spaces, anarchist-esque self defence dojos, etc.

Additionally there is always an sizable and police attention attracting contingent of anarchists at more lamestream marches, e.g. ANSWER anti-war rallies, may day.

[ellipsis]

there may be quite a few anarchists here in the bay area, but there are many internal divisions and they are not well organized, and few have any orientation to workplace organizing. there are some meeting spaces, like station 40,which has monthly salons, and some other periodic events, but little ongoing organization.

This is beginning to change at station 40. A lot of organizing goes on there, but simply because so many people meet there, the space is agreeable to being semi-open, etc. But more recently, members of the collective have been organizing and marching around bank demos, as well as proposing/advertising a new month long anti-austerity propaganda production and street level agitation campaign.

You are accurate about low levels of anarcho-syndicalist organizing. although i would hope the IWW would be more in tune with that. Anarchist do march with unions, specifically in my memory at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel Westin, which is and has been under boycott.

[syndicat]

You are accurate about low levels of anarcho-syndicalist organizing.well, i was referring to a lack of orientation to workplace organizing in general. some anarchists I know who do have such an orientation do not describe themselves as "anarcho-syndicalists". I'm thinking of East Oakland branch of Amanecer. and IWW need not be the only way for anarchists to engage in workplace organizing. there are a variety of AFL-CIO or CTW unions in the Bay Area, and at times there have been rank and file oppositions.

also many of the local anarchists are opposed to a class struggle perspective.

[ellipsis]

Modesto Anarcho produces a zine as their main focus. They also have a social space called the firehouse. There have been members of the MAC that post on here in the past. They were loosely affiliated with RAAN.

http://www.modestoanarcho.org/

Modesto rolls into town on occasion, and they roll deep.

[The Douche]

Modesto rolls into town on occasion, and they roll deep.

When steve was still in the MAC and he came out here he brought me a MAC shirt and I gave him a CWS hat.


Coast to coast mother fucker hahaha.

[Bardo]

I guess I should clarify. By "scene," i really meant movement.

Here in the Bay Area we have A LOT of FnB, plus Homes not Jails regularly occupying buildings and this past valentines day causing a federal building to be locked down, SanFran Solidarity Network (new but promising), UA in the Bay, who just held an anarchist general assembly, a recent series of "anti-cut" actions put on by an affinity group dubbed "Bay of Rage" by the media, regular anarchist salons and reading groups, visiting authors from around the world having lectures (TIC included), anarchist publishers (AK and PM press), a number of squats, infoshops and collective spaces, anarchist-esque self defence dojos, etc.

Additionally there is always an sizable and police attention attracting contingent of anarchists at more lamestream marches, e.g. ANSWER anti-war rallies, may day.

It sounds like SF/California is the place to be. It would be amazing to not have to drive for hours just to meet up with a different group or organization. There's just SO much work to be done here in FL, it's a shame there isn't more activity going on.

[Leftsolidarity]

Rockford Illinois has a decent number. They aren't organized into one official group but they are there and they do shit. They are mostly involved in fighting to keep our music scene alive at the moment and doing stuff like Critical Mass.

[ellipsis]

I gave him a CWS hat.

I hope that means a Class War Syndicate hat, and not Chris War Syndicate.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Refering to the "anarchist movement" is generally overstating what actually exists in the USA, lol.

There's not really a lot of activity in NYC as far as I can gather. I don't live near there anymore, though, and only put minimal effort into learning about it when I was. There were a couple groups and a couple anarcho-celebrities like Wayne Price of NEFAC and Ashanti Alston when I was there, that's pretty much it. The annual bookfair there is OK, though.

I'm almost positive that I'm the only one keeping the match-flame of anarkay alive where I live now.

[Paulappaul]

I think that Paul's comment on the state of Portland anarchists is sorta correct. It should be noted that there are alot of anarchists in this town who have nothing to do with the "scene" and like most people find it completely alienating for many reasons. We also have a local IWW branch, which is very large and active, that many anarchists in this town are involved with.

Anarchists in Portland can hardly be considered a homogeneous group. So often we are all lumped into a single group, "The Anarchists" , when in reality we're just a bunch of people who really have nothing in common politically or personally besides the fact we label ourselves as anarchists. I think alot of times that label creates a false sense of unity, that I think in the long run is an actual barrier to organizing.

I would agree and I think Mari3L and some other Portland Comrades would too. We have a very pretentious and alienating scene of Anarchists here who nobody likes to work with. Kinda like our local ISO branch. The IWW, while not explicitly Anarchist, carries some of the best and in my experience most friendly Anarchists in town.

As a side not to this however, I don't see the self proclaimed Anarchists within Unions or within Worker/Tenant Solidarity Organizations such as the Seattle Solidarity Network as really "Anarchists" but as good Working Class Militants. In the same way I don't think Trotskyists getting elected as Shop Stewards or in other positions within a Trade Union as really "Trotsky" as their success doesn't rely on their individual ideology as much as it does on their ability to be good militants. In this way, I don't see the productive work of the IWW as "Anarchist" because the IWW isn't Anarchist for one, but also because its work is fundamentally antithetical to the organized Anarchist movement in Portland which in alot of cases in Anti - Left, Anti - Worker.

[The Douche]

I hope that means a Class War Syndicate hat, and not Chris War Syndicate.

People often ask if my CWS tattoo or my girlfriend's CWS tattoo are my initials.

[Johnny Kerosene]

There's not alot going on in Florida either. Tampa and Orlando have functioning FnB chapters, but there's not really an anarchist presence. A regional WSA contact in north Florida tells me that there are a handful of members scattered throughout the state, and that there is a larger concentration of anarchist sympathizers in the Miami area.

Maybe my ear isn't exactly to the ground but there doesn't seem to be alot of activity in my state.

There's a "non-corporate" library in Gainesville that's famous enough to have a wikipedia library. Civic Media Center. Look dat shit up.

[syndicat]

in Miami there is Miami Autonomy & Solidarity, a fairly disciplined and good-sized social anarchist group. they've been doing organizing among teachers (teachers union there is unresponsive and corrupt) , among taxi drivers, and elsewhere.

in the FL panhandle, WSA has a group in Pensacola.

[x359594]

Here in Los Angeles we have Food Not Bombs, an anarcha-feminist outfit that participates or organizes the Clit Fest, Cop Watch L.A., several anrachist inspired pirate radio stations, Revolutionary Autonomous Communities, Rise the Fist (with Sherman Austin who was jailed for two years for violating the USA PATRIOT Act,) an active IWW General Membership Branch, an annual anarchist book fair in its third year, and an annual Southern California Anarchist Convention in its second year. There's also a Workers Solidarity Alliance chapter, a tour of historical anarchist sites in Los Angeles conducted by Anarchist Black Cross plus their annual Running Down the Walls run.

[Joe Payne]

There's a good amount going on in RI. There's a sizable NEFAC local as well as a decent IWW GMB, as well as an anarchist social/community space. There's other stuff too like community gardens, an herbal pharmacy, a quasi anarchist music venue/bar/art space, cop watch, and a bunch of other projects. Some anarchists also just work in community groups without feeling a need to be in a wider anarchist group. Oh yeah we also have a Solidarity Network. The only groups that do organizing in a concerted way is NEFAC and the IWW, whether workplace, community, or what have you.

As a general note anarchists as a movement and just in terms of numbers is the largest single noncapitalist tendency in this state, and anarchism isn't really a scene anymore since the community space started. We're all just regular folks, and recognized as such.

[tachosomoza]

A lot of older, more established leftists in my town who were around for the movements of the '60s and '70s look at today's young leftists (anarchists included) as poseurs and trend followers who really don't have anything at stake, and hopelessly try to carbon copy the older movements.

[Jose Gracchus]

I would agree and I think Mari3L and some other Portland Comrades would too. We have a very pretentious and alienating scene of Anarchists here who nobody likes to work with. Kinda like our local ISO branch. The IWW, while not explicitly Anarchist, carries some of the best and in my experience most friendly Anarchists in town.

As a side not to this however, I don't see the self proclaimed Anarchists within Unions or within Worker/Tenant Solidarity Organizations such as the Seattle Solidarity Network as really "Anarchists" but as good Working Class Militants. In the same way I don't think Trotskyists getting elected as Shop Stewards or in other positions within a Trade Union as really "Trotsky" as their success doesn't rely on their individual ideology as much as it does on their ability to be good militants. In this way, I don't see the productive work of the IWW as "Anarchist" because the IWW isn't Anarchist for one, but also because its work is fundamentally antithetical to the organized Anarchist movement in Portland which in alot of cases in Anti - Left, Anti - Worker.

Are they Zerzan-fanboy primmies?

[Paulappaul]

Well Zerzan lives in the Pacific Northwest, so yes for the most part. You also have some Anarchists which are just totally over intellectual. College kids who wasted thousands on getting a degree in Egyptian Philosophy. They also have a Fetish for Animal Rights, Bicycles and other hip white middle class shit.

[bcbm]

lets talk shit about the people who are closest to us politically but still "unseemly" while meanwhile most of the country/world couldn't give less of a fuck

[Paulappaul]

I don't get many opportunities to talk about how much I hate the left :)

[bcbm]

i mean me too but its still kind of sad

[ellipsis]

Also off topic. Please refrain from over negativity in this thread.

[The Douche]

When did bikes become the domain of the white middle class? Pretty sure that's BMWs, I ride a bike cause I can't afford a car...:confused:

[ellipsis]

Bikes are prole as eff.

[The Douche]

Welp, I'm off to make a bike thread in chit chat.

On topic:

Next week my town is having its first anarchist event since probably 2006. And even though its just a small reading group in my living room I am excited, because other than me and my girlfriend everybody else involved is new to anarchism.

[Tablo]

The Alabama anarchist scene is non-existent. We don't really have anything outside of lifestylists from what I can tell. I think there are a few anarchists in the state other than myself, but there aren't any real anarchist groups unless you count Food Not Bombs.

[Ingraham Effingham]

Is it a fundamental flaw in anarchism? the inability to organize and unite?

[Leftsolidarity]

Is it a fundamental flaw in anarchism? the inability to organize and unite?

No, I think it is the fact that it has been turned into a teen culture instead of a revolutionary movement. This is coming from a non-anarchist btw. Anarchists in the past have been able to organize themselves but at least in the USA it has become just like a music scene and it's "cool".

[x359594]

...There's not really a lot of activity in NYC as far as I can gather...

When I lived in NYC from 1974 to 1989 there was still a fairly active anarchist movement that could field an anarchist contingent for major demonstrations, strike support, picket lines and community organizing. The Libertarian Book Club held monthly meetings, the Workingman's Circle had a newsletter (there were several ephemeral anarchist publishing ventures), there was an anarchist bookstore in the Village near NYU, an anarchist tour of the Lower Eastside, not to mention the NYC IWW GMB located at 119 E. 10th Street.

[Paulappaul]

When did bikes become the domain of the white middle class? Pretty sure that's BMWs, I ride a bike cause I can't afford a car...:confused:

Come to Portland and you'll see. Which reminds me... (http://cyclejerk.blogspot.com/2011/01/portlandia-bike-messenger-skit.html)

[The Douche]

Come to Portland and you'll see. Which reminds me... (http://cyclejerk.blogspot.com/2011/01/portlandia-bike-messenger-skit.html)

Yeah this is me, but punk not hipster, hahaha.


lifestylists

Really...people still say this?

[DiaMat86]

Philly and New Jersey: Anti Racist Action ONE PEOPLES PROJECT

I'm not an Anarchist but I like how "one peoples project" and anti-racist action beats up Nazis in Philly and South Jersey.

It showed very good tactics and organization when ARA tracked down the Fash in trenton back in April.

PLP sends in fighters in North Jersey and NYC. PLP goes out to protest militantly is South Jersey and Philly but doesn't have the numbers needed to mount more serious action.

PLP's past infiltrations were devious but the Nazis are chrystal meth paranoid now. A good sign! The NSM is VERY wary of who they share info with now.

[tachosomoza]

We need action groups like the ARA in the rest of the country.

[Os Cangaceiros]

When I lived in NYC from 1974 to 1989 there was still a fairly active anarchist movement that could field an anarchist contingent for major demonstrations, strike support, picket lines and community organizing. The Libertarian Book Club held monthly meetings, the Workingman's Circle had a newsletter (there were several ephemeral anarchist publishing ventures), there was an anarchist bookstore in the Village near NYU, an anarchist tour of the Lower Eastside, not to mention the NYC IWW GMB located at 119 E. 10th Street.

Welp, when I was there from 2007 to about 2009 there wasn't much goin' on. Case in point being nymaa, which now appears to be defunct or something.

That's not to say that there's nothing there, of course...New York has ABC No Rio, Blue Stockings, other places like that. But for a city it's size...I wasn't impressed.

The IWW there is miniscule, as it is in most places (no offense to IWW people).

[Imposter Marxist]

Its going to great in Detroit, if you mean getting wasted at punk shows and showing up to Union rally with masks and RAAN posters :D

[Nuvem]

There's an Anarchist movement in the US outside of punk houses and the internet? Last Anarchists I saw doing anything marched alongside a rally of some 4,000 union workers in Detroit last April, 15 feet to the left of the main column with a red/black flag, facemasks and a homemade RAAN banner. They successfully alienated and confused 4,000 workers in just under a couple of hours. Damn fine work, if that was their goal.

An edit: there were 3 of them.

[o well this is ok I guess]

I sort of want to make a joke regarding the thread title but I can't think of one that isn't completely unfunny.

[bcbm]

There's an Anarchist movement in the US outside of punk houses and the internet? Last Anarchists I saw doing anything marched alongside a rally of some 4,000 union workers in Detroit last April, 15 feet to the left of the main column with a red/black flag, facemasks and a homemade RAAN banner. They successfully alienated and confused 4,000 workers in just under a couple of hours. Damn fine work, if that was their goal.

An edit: there were 3 of them.

anti police marches after cop murders in portland, seattle and bay area, some minor shit in olympia, there was a conference about austerity in milwaukee a couple months ago with maybe 50 (i know) attendees, there is shit around most of it has nothing to do with punk

[black magick hustla]

anti police marches after cop murders in portland, seattle and bay area, some minor shit in olympia, there was a conference about austerity in milwaukee a couple months ago with maybe 50 (i know) attendees, there is shit around most of it has nothing to do with punk
i think the point is that viretually all the wingnuts (including myself) are fucked and insular and i think its healthier to engage that and understand it, at least on a personal level so that you don't feel obliged to do anything and get a hero complex. when the time comes (if it comes) people will start articulating the communist program again, maybe not in classical terms (like through marxism for example) but communism is about people wanting to be free, it has existed since slaves wanted to be free and it will only stop existing until men either go extinct or men lose any drive to stop being pushed around as disposable objects

[Ravachol]

i think the point is that viretually all the wingnuts (including myself) are fucked and insular and i think its healthier to engage that and understand it, at least on a personal level so that you don't feel obliged to do anything and get a hero complex. when the time comes (if it comes) people will start articulating the communist program again, maybe not in classical terms (like through marxism for example) but communism is about people wanting to be free, it has existed since slaves wanted to be free and it will only stop existing until men either go extinct or men lose any drive to stop being pushed around as disposable objects

Very true, on the other hand, we shouldn't fall in a DuPont-esque pitfall of utter materialist determinism. Personal agency can still contribute to the active direction struggles take and, well, I mean we're still proles ourselves so our own activity composes part of the class struggle. Not that it means anything in the greater scheme of things on itself but oh well

[The Douche]

What does poor interaction with the labor movement have to be with being punk? Sounds to me like those people are just inexperienced with interacting with people regarding politics.

[Joe Payne]

Well the IWW is larger than any single leninist party in the US, and although not being anarchists themselves, it seems all the best organizers tend to be anarchists. I'd also say with all the various regional groups combined outside the IWW probably equals if not exceeds the size of most other Leninist groups as well. Add in BTR, Unity and STruggle, and Advance the Struggle, as well as Black Orchid that adds even more to the general libertarian communist movement. ALso if you take into account informal affinity groups of insurrectionists/pseudo insurrectionists (the largest tendency, or at least it was, it may be faltering now) being estimated at at least 10,000, then the largest revolutioonary anti-capitalist tendencies in the US is broadly anarchism.

i.e. we have no problem organizing. What's caused all the wavering was the crushing and mass murder of most of the last generations by Capitalists and authroitarian socialists. It's only recently we've finally been able to have a wealth of knowledge of past libertarian movements and writings that we can regroup and come back. ANd given our progress in the last ten years, and crazy growing pains and mistakes, I'd say we're really getting our shit together.

It seems to be terrifying many of the leftists.

[x359594]

...The IWW there is miniscule, as it is in most places (no offense to IWW people).

No offense taken, but Starbucks's workers at the 36th and Madison store in midtown Manhattan organized the first Starbucks barista union in the United States, and the Starbucks Workers Union is growing in NYC.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

The IWW there is miniscule, as it is in most places (no offense to IWW people).
It is weird how the fastest and/or biggest IWW's are in mid-size cities rather than big cities.

Edit: The IWW is bigger and growing than some think. We do a lot of shit, but that doesn't mean we can't go public with all our news. Do you think we really want to suddenly have a backlash after years of work on some stuff? If we continue our success at one chain that we haven't publicly announced yet, shit is about to explode within the next few years. You still have a point though, not trying to make it sound like everyone is secretly a wobbly ;)

[x359594]

...We do a lot of shit...

True indeed, and the IWW flies under the radar; for example, the aforementioned Starbucks organizing campaign is publicly visible as the Starbucks Workers Union, and in Los Angeles there's the Angel City Messengers Union, neither of which have the IWW in their monikers but both of which are IWW unions.

[YSR]

Well, the SWU is pretty clearly marked as the Industrial Workers of the World, it's all over their press releases and if you ask anyone in the union, they'll tell you they are IWW first and foremost.

The IWW isn't an anarchist organization at all but I did want to respond to this:


It is weird how the fastest and/or biggest IWW's are in mid-size cities rather than big cities.

I think this has to do with the fact that organizing in large cities on a city-wide basis is just hard cause it's harder to get around. Also that in a lot of larger cities there's historic beef between individuals and groups where as in medium or small cities or regions we're forced to work together more often and people can get across their differences.

And I won't lie, Twin Cities IWW is what's up.

[ellipsis]

Apparently Home Not Jails has better attended and better run meetings than the SF chapter of the Green Party, which has got to be worth something...

[iWobble]

Oklahoma is pretty much devoid of anarchists. Well actually, no, there's this "anarchist" group in Norman called the "undercurrent (http://www.wearetheundercurrent.com/)" that seems to have alienated even the small group of anarcho-/crust punks who chill there.

Aside from that, I know very, VERY few people in my area who identify as anarcho-anything. (As a further aside, it's really truly sad how conservative this place has gotten. The "counterculture" - by that I mean the punk and/or indie scene - has become almost entirely fashion-oriented and conservative, the working class is all basically conservative... shit sucks. My friend and the singer in my band, who has recently become legitimately class-conscious, got accosted by a woman at a labor rally back in march for wearing a shirt with a communist symbol on it. To be fair it was one of the Moveon.org rallies, but still. Disappointing.)


If we continue our success at one chain that we haven't publicly announced yet, shit is about to explode within the next few years. You still have a point though, not trying to make it sound like everyone is secretly a wobbly ;)

OR ARE THEY?

I can't wait to hear about it.

- iWobble

Edit for facepalm: just found out about some Wobblies down in Norman that are putting a publishing collective together.

[heirofstalin]

I am curious to hear about the anarchist "scene" in different parts of the US. The SF Bay Area is full of them and I am becoming increasingly familiar with the anarchist/radical scene here, which I am guessing is among the most vibrant in the country. Portland and NYC have strong anarchist presences from what I can gather. Other places?


Anarchism is radical and marginalized as it has always been, as it deserves to be, the establishment of a communist government is whats needed, anarchy is a pathetic whitewash.

[ellipsis]

Anarchism is radical and marginalized as it has always been, as it deserves to be, the establishment of a communist government is whats needed, anarchy is a pathetic whitewash.

Really, really not the thread for such a comment. Verbal warning issued for trolling.

[socialistjustin]

In Vegas theres a Food Not Bombs and an anarchist meetup. The meetup seems to be more Mutualist than anything. Thats pretty much it as far as I can tell.

[Susurrus]

North east Floridian here, never seen another anarchist(or communist that I didn't help create) in my life. I've heard whispers of a FnB and Black Cross in Jax(about an hour away), but I have not had contact or any sort. Then again, I'm not the most socially active fellow, my neighbors could be anarchists and I would have no idea unless they flew a black and red flag or something.