🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🚷 Antifa and far-left extremists from across the country mobilized to Lochiel, Arizona for an autonomous zone to prevent the federal government from constructing a border wall? They raised tens of thousands for their autonomous zone and are continuing the stand off.

What began as an environmental protest on the Arizona border became a project for a network of self-described “aspiring revolutionaries.”

After contractors cut down three cottonwood trees, anarchists and activists flooded into the zone. They published a plan to stop the wall, raised nearly $75,000, and called on people across the country to move to Lochiel with “open-ended plans.”

By day 71, the Lochiel Autonomous Zone had a manned checkpoint at the gate, a mutual aid supply network, a legal defense fund, occupied multiple buildings, dozens of tents, more than 50 vehicles and roughly 100 people.

📎 Andy Ngo