“When AAPJ attended May Day (sponsored by the Phoenix Anarchist Coalition), we knew that their guidelines differ from ours,” Sinema emailed a fellow protester. “They are okay with weapons and property destruction in some instances, and so those of us who chose to attend the event knew that it would be inappropriate to ask someone to not destroy property or to carry a weapon.”
In other words, Sinema didn’t feel comfortable imposing her beliefs about not destroying property on her fellow protesters. Neither her congressional office nor her Senate campaign wanted to answer questions about why she would both organize and participate in protests with people who insist on a right to riot and destroy property, not just once but routinely. Numerous phone calls and emails went unanswered.
Sinema came of age as an activist during the Iraq War and left behind quite a paper trail from her time as a far-left protester. The founder of another Arizona activist group, Local to Global Justice, Sinema actually partnered with the Phoenix Anarchist Coalition on a regular basis. A February 2003 press release, archived and accessed through the WayBack Machine, lists Sinema as the point of contact for an Iraq War protest co-sponsored by the anarchists.
Kyrsten Sinema in 2002: It'd be 'inappropriate' to condemn destruction of property by anarchists
In other words, Sinema didn’t feel comfortable imposing her beliefs about not destroying property on her fellow protesters. Neither her congressional office nor her Senate campaign wanted to answer questions about why she would both organize and participate in protests with people who insist on a right to riot and destroy property, not just once but routinely. Numerous phone calls and emails went unanswered.
Sinema came of age as an activist during the Iraq War and left behind quite a paper trail from her time as a far-left protester. The founder of another Arizona activist group, Local to Global Justice, Sinema actually partnered with the Phoenix Anarchist Coalition on a regular basis. A February 2003 press release, archived and accessed through the WayBack Machine, lists Sinema as the point of contact for an Iraq War protest co-sponsored by the anarchists.
Kyrsten Sinema in 2002: It'd be 'inappropriate' to condemn destruction of property by anarchists
