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The 2020 - 2021 report was intended to provide a non-partisan source of information on riot ‘Direct Action’, street conflicts and how they played out “under the cover of protests.”

The home page, as of September 2022, now catalogues ALL reported events of political violence between 2015 - 2022. Omissions welcome. I am an advocate for non-violence as a Photojournalist and former (sometimes still) professional news anchor; Also a working filmmaker, actor, and student of theater when time allows.

From the perspective of a Thespian, all perspectives are valid and should be honored in the telling of what happens. What I have found is that people in the protest scene often tell you exactly who they are and what they believe. That said, the Press has been shut out of this story and caught up in the fog of a culture war. My concern, shared with others I collaborated with following unrest on the ground in 2020-2021, is empirical truth: Not agenda or partisanship.

I highly recommend those interested in parsing the culture war violence we witnessed, to go directly to primary source non-partisan documentarians such as Ford Fischer, Brendan Gutenschwager (BGontheScene) and Scootercaster on X.

Sean aka @acatwithnews (Bluesky), will show you a street view of what is happening from the perspective of an ‘antifascist’ activist insider. Conversely, you can look at the work of Anthony Cabassa (IG and X) and see a right-wing perspective from the streets. All of these photojournalists do excellent work.

I would urge that reporting from the Daily Beast, Vice, Daily Dot, Huffington Post, Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other left-wing dominated partisan platforms be given the same scrutiny that Breitbart and others would receive for right-wing partisan coverage, as all appear allergic to printing anything that reflects poorly on one’s own affiliated activists.

Then, there are the activists themselves presenting as journalists. If a camera is positioned to show only one side of a conflict, as is often the case, buyer beware. I am glad that there were other journalists, from a neutral perspective, who captured how it went down on the ground during the 2020 summer of civil unrest, which continued into 2021.

Some of us were also at the Capitol on January 6th. Some have been on the ground since 2017, and as recently as Minneapolis, Portland and Los Angeles in 2026. We are not reporting from behind a computer monitor- but on the streets. Seek us out.

I have come to the conclusion that the ‘Anarchist-Antifascist’ tactics working against peaceful protest not only hijacked the culturally left protest movements of May 2020— but also the principals of Anarchism itself, which center on individual freedom from coercive authority.

Why do militants feel the need to hide their faces if their cause is just?

At what point does the madness of the mob take over?

I have been critical since 2020 to how this all plays into the hands of Donald Trump and fuels right-wing activism and even street militancy (Ala the Proud Boys).

At what point if the Press falls silent- or becomes entrenched in partisanship, do we cosign to the upheaval of our social order?

How steeped are we as a nation in a polarization crisis?

These are topics worthy of discussion. Let’s keep talking.

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