Digital/physical archive in infancy, focusing on anarchist activity in western Washington. Send your handbills, flyers, posters, zines, books, etc.
Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, etc.
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We are attempting to preserve the digital and physical material culture of anarchists in the Salish Sea region of western Washington, a history spanning from the late 19th century to today.
This post was ripped from the zine "Anarchy On the Hill," a chronicle of militant action in the Puget Sound region.
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On 10/22/08, a Democratic Party office had its windows smashed & its wall painted with phrases such as “NO MORE RULERS,” “I WANT FREEDOM.” A group calling itself H.A.N.D. (Hooligans Attack at Night, Duh!) claimed credit & blasted the Dems for being identical to the Republicans.
Got a hard copy of Tacoma's first anarchist publication, Why? You can get a hardbound anthology of the entire run of Why? from us.
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Got a hard copy of Seattle’s Black Autonomy vol. 3 no. 1, pdf can be perused at louisecrowleylibrary.org/bla…
On July 17, 2008, anonymous individuals disabled and removed the surveillance camera facing the PitchPipe Infoshop. A week later, pictures of the high-powered camera were anonymously posted on the internet.
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Got another edition, this one by SF's Revolutionary Workers Group, unknown publication year.
On July 11, 1933, French-born anarchist, and editor of Home, WA anarchist newspaper The Demonstrator, Laurent Casas died.
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We just got hard copies of the two published issues of Seattle insurrectionary anarchist magazine "A Murder of Crows," you can read PDFs of both at louisecrowleylibrary.org/a-m…
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On July 4, 1997, the Animal Liberation Front freed 4000 mink from the David Smith Mink Farm in Cle Elum, Washington. The farm did not survive this action.
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On July 3, 1921, the accursed snitch Donald Vose got spit on by Home, WA resident Gaston Lance at a community baseball game. This would be the last time that Vose attempted to visit the anarchist community before his comical death.
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ALT Gaston Lance, the hero of this story.
On July 1, 1914, the final issue of Why? was published by Enrico Travaglio in Tacoma. You can get a full set of these issues at louisecrowleylibrary.org/sho…
Just got three more issues of Seattle's Black Autonomy scanned and uploaded.
I spent the weekend scanning and editing issues of Black Autonomy, and transcribing a few texts from it as well. Really trying to find more issues though!
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Added Jay Fox's eulogy for Voltairine de Cleyre to the texts section: louisecrowleylibrary.org/vol…
We added an article about the Northwest Detention Center, published in Autonomy//253, way back in 2011, while Obama was president.
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A short documentary on the NWDC that anarchists made in 2008: youtu.be/bTrR1s7du6s?si=XQ1I…
Found three related flyers, two for noise demos at the detention center, one for an info night about it, all from 2010.
A former collective member of Seattle's Black Cat Cafe is looking for people to collaborate on a collective history of the project.
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I just randomly remembered that in 1903 the state of Washington made it illegal to be an anarchist.
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The US government has always been a force for censorship.
Time is a spiral.
On May 12, 1967, Seattle anarchist Stan Iverson burned an American flag in Seattle. Despite Iverson admitting that he burned the flag, Floyd Turner was convicted of it and served 45 days before being released on bond and acquitted by the WA Supreme Court.
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ALT Floyd Turner (L) and Stan Iverson (R) in front of the ID bookstore in Seattle's University District.