One of the trolls in Trolls 2: Trolls World Tour? CHAZ may be all of these, but it is also the acronym for the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” an area of about six blocks in Seattle ceded ...

Spanning around six city blocks, this space has been named the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ. The sign above the station's door has been reworked with spray paint to read "Seattle People's ...

Because as the history of autonomous zones like CHAZ teaches us, we can be plenty peaceful on our own, thank you very much. In 1991, the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone was born.

Some claim CHOP is the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Others still call it CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, its early moniker. The shape-shifting name represents a fundamental truth ...

"We just want to make sure it gets resolved," says Police Chief Carmen Best. After confrontations with police, protesters in Seattle seized a several-block area to create an "autonomous police ...

While CHAZ’s original claim to “autonomous zone” may have gotten attention, it’s obvious to anyone in Seattle that the zone is not autonomous. People live there, and businesses are still ...

The de facto leader of the autonomous protest zone in Seattle said Wednesday “a lot of people have already” left the area, days after the mayor said she was going to persuade people to leave.

The dream that was CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, in Seattle has evaporated nearly as quickly as it originated. After three shootings leaving one man dead and three wounded, the ...

Inside Seattle’s self-proclaimed autonomous zone, black organizers have expressed doubt over the sincerity of white protesters, as the commandeered six blocks have transformed into a festival ...

A New York Times spokesperson told us the newspaper did not publish a headline that said, "Pope Leo XIV sas a founding member of the 2020 anarchist Portland autonomous zone known as CHAZ." The ...

The area was first called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ. As demonstrations continued Sunday for the 17th consecutive day, there were talks among the city of Seattle, demonstrators ...