Anarchists Storm Sephora

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Vanishing New York points us to this amazing New York Times story about how dozens of anarchists took over the north end of Union Square this weekend to celebrate the English translation of a French book called The Coming Insurrection. Sample text: "Inside the Sephora cosmetics shop on East 17th Street, the crowd chanted, 'All power to the communes,' as security guards wearing black T-shirts ordered them back outside." [NYT via VNY]