CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
The history of anarchist involvement in counter-inaugural protest stretches back to the 1960s. This article traces it from 1969 to 2013: https://crimethinc.com/ungovernable "After police drove them back from the parade route, 300-400 'ultramilitants' raged…
In 2017, demonstrators blockaded six of the fourteen security checkpoints around the inaugural parade for several hours. Some locked themselves to the fences meant to keep them out.
You can read our live updates from the day here, in reverse chronological order:
https://crimethinc.com/j20live
Shortly before Trump's inaugural parade in 2017, hundreds of people gathered for an anti-capitalist, anti-fascist march. This was the notorious J20 black bloc, which left wreckage in its wake.
Though it ended in mass arrests, the police lost control of the streets for the rest of the day.
The suit-and-tie fascist Richard Spencer had showed up to the 2017 presidential inauguration, hoping that Trump's success would bring fascism to power. When a participant in the black bloc punched Spencer, the punch became world-famous, reassuring millions that they would not be alone fighting fascism.
You can read our live updates from the day here, in reverse chronological order:
https://crimethinc.com/j20live
Shortly before Trump's inaugural parade in 2017, hundreds of people gathered for an anti-capitalist, anti-fascist march. This was the notorious J20 black bloc, which left wreckage in its wake.
Though it ended in mass arrests, the police lost control of the streets for the rest of the day.
The suit-and-tie fascist Richard Spencer had showed up to the 2017 presidential inauguration, hoping that Trump's success would bring fascism to power. When a participant in the black bloc punched Spencer, the punch became world-famous, reassuring millions that they would not be alone fighting fascism.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
In 2017, demonstrators blockaded six of the fourteen security checkpoints around the inaugural parade for several hours. Some locked themselves to the fences meant to keep them out. You can read our live updates from the day here, in reverse chronological…
To capture the protests against Trump’s 2017 inauguration from multiple vantage points, we prepared a Choose Your Own Adventure game based on the experiences of participants in the black bloc march and the notorious court case that followed it.
You can play it here:
https://crimethinc.com/j20simulator
You can play it here:
https://crimethinc.com/j20simulator
CrimethInc.
J20 Protest Simulator
A narrative simulation based on the experiences one could have participating in the march against Trump’s inauguration and the ensuing court cases.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
To capture the protests against Trump’s 2017 inauguration from multiple vantage points, we prepared a Choose Your Own Adventure game based on the experiences of participants in the black bloc march and the notorious court case that followed it. You can play…
After the protests at the 2017 inauguration, a fierce legal struggle ensued, as prosecutors attempted to put protesters in prison for decades for the alleged crime of wearing black in the vicinity of a march.
In the end, the prosecution was completely defeated—a crucial victory for the freedom to protest and resist. Solidarity among the defendants was crucial in this struggle.
This is how they won:
https://crimethinc.com/J20legal
In the end, the prosecution was completely defeated—a crucial victory for the freedom to protest and resist. Solidarity among the defendants was crucial in this struggle.
This is how they won:
https://crimethinc.com/J20legal
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
After the protests at the 2017 inauguration, a fierce legal struggle ensued, as prosecutors attempted to put protesters in prison for decades for the alleged crime of wearing black in the vicinity of a march. In the end, the prosecution was completely defeated—a…
After the 2017 inauguration, we published a blow-by-blow account and analysis of the day's events, showing how demonstrators took on much better-equipped adversaries and why police lost control, distilling the strategic lessons.
It still makes for instructive reading:
https://crimethinc.com/J20analysis
It still makes for instructive reading:
https://crimethinc.com/J20analysis
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
After the 2017 inauguration, we published a blow-by-blow account and analysis of the day's events, showing how demonstrators took on much better-equipped adversaries and why police lost control, distilling the strategic lessons. It still makes for instructive…
In 2017, it made sense to concentrate numbers in DC to demonstrate what resisting Trump could look like. The tactics that a few hundred people employed on the first day of Trump's presidency were being used by hundreds of thousands by the summer of 2020.
In 2025, the second round of this fight is about to begin all across the country with mass deportations and repression. This time, people are gathering in their communities to share skills and prepare:
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance
The struggle continues.
In 2025, the second round of this fight is about to begin all across the country with mass deportations and repression. This time, people are gathering in their communities to share skills and prepare:
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance
The struggle continues.
El Argumento por Resistencia
A qué nos enfrentamos y cómo podría ser la lucha
https://crimethinc.com/zines/el-argumento-por-resistencia-a-que-nos-enfrentamos-y-como-podria-ser-la-lucha
La vision es clara. Ganaremos bajo nuestros propios esfuerzos. Los tiempos de Trump no estan en el pasado, lo estamos navegando. La mejor manera de afrontarlo, es luchando.
#Español
A qué nos enfrentamos y cómo podría ser la lucha
https://crimethinc.com/zines/el-argumento-por-resistencia-a-que-nos-enfrentamos-y-como-podria-ser-la-lucha
La vision es clara. Ganaremos bajo nuestros propios esfuerzos. Los tiempos de Trump no estan en el pasado, lo estamos navegando. La mejor manera de afrontarlo, es luchando.
#Español
Yesterday, the Day of the Forest Defender, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. From a statement:
"The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable."
"Viva Tortuguita And All Land Defenders."
"The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable."
"Viva Tortuguita And All Land Defenders."
Donald Trump is threatening to begin his second presidency with a new round of gratuitous violence targeting undocumented families.
In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts and demonstrations and barricades.
There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other.
https://crimethinc.com/ICEage
In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts and demonstrations and barricades.
There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other.
https://crimethinc.com/ICEage
Assembled at his inauguration, we see the oligarchs who lined up to bring Donald Trump back to power. Capitalism has always meant rule by billionaires, but it is especially noxious that this particular billionaire has returned to office by pretending to oppose "the elite." In fact, the new Trump administration represents the intensification of state violence for the benefit of the ultra-rich. They regard the rest of us as disposable resources in their quest for total domination.
We have to fight them with everything we have.
https://crimethinc.com/resist2025
We have to fight them with everything we have.
https://crimethinc.com/resist2025
While some wring their hands about the return of Donald Trump, others are getting organized to resist and defend each other.
Read reports from Festivals of Resistance that drew hundreds of people to dozens of events around the United States this past weekend.
https://crimethinc.com/festivals2025
We can do this!🏴
Read reports from Festivals of Resistance that drew hundreds of people to dozens of events around the United States this past weekend.
https://crimethinc.com/festivals2025
We can do this!🏴
Elon Musk made the Nazi salute twice at Trump's inauguration.
Musk bought Twitter to reinstate Nazis. He supports the German fascist party AfD. He has spread antisemitic "replacement" rhetoric.
Yet the ADL is making excuses for him because, like them, he supports the genocide of Palestinians.
Unsurprisingly, fascism looks a bit different this time around than it did a century ago. But it already has its Henry Ford, its autocrats, its scapegoats against whom to direct anger, its sacrificial violence.
We should have no illusions about what we're up against.
https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence
Musk bought Twitter to reinstate Nazis. He supports the German fascist party AfD. He has spread antisemitic "replacement" rhetoric.
Yet the ADL is making excuses for him because, like them, he supports the genocide of Palestinians.
Unsurprisingly, fascism looks a bit different this time around than it did a century ago. But it already has its Henry Ford, its autocrats, its scapegoats against whom to direct anger, its sacrificial violence.
We should have no illusions about what we're up against.
https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence