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'Sabotage': Nails driven into tree trunks at future Quebec EV battery plant site

From The Canadian Press
January 24, 2024

Anonymous group claims responsibility on anarchist web site

MONTREAL — Swedish manufacturer Northvolt AB says the site of its future electric vehicle battery plant near Montreal was sabotaged after nails were driven into trees that are set to be cut down.

Fires investigated at location for North Portland mass homeless camping site

From KGW
January 22, 2024

PORTLAND, Ore. — An arson investigation is underway into a series of fires set earlier this month in North Portland, at a location slated to become one of Portland's six planned large-scale sanctioned homeless camping sites.

The location of the camp, 10505 North Portland Road, was announced by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler in October 2023.

The swift rise and fall of Japanese anarchism

from japantimes.co by Michael Hoffman

Must there be nations, states, governments? What if the anarchists had won?

It’s an unlikely notion, so completely have they faded from the scene. But 100 years ago, in Japan as elsewhere, the anarchists numbered in their ranks philosophers, visionaries, conspirators and passionately committed fellow-travelers who saw anarchism — not anarchy, which they denied would ensue — as the inevitable and much preferable successor to the repressive, oppressive, retrograde piece of machinery known as the state.

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

On a winter night a hundred years ago, Ellis Island, the twenty-seven-acre patch of land in New York Harbor that had been the gateway to America for millions of hopeful immigrants, was playing the opposite role. It had been turned into a prison for several hundred men, and a few women, most of whom had arrived in handcuffs and shackles. They were about to be shipped across the Atlantic, in the country’s first mass deportation of political dissidents in the twentieth century.

Is it right to brand 2019 clashes in UK and Hong Kong anarchy?

from itv.com

From the summer protest-led chaos across UK cities to the ongoing violent clashes in Hong Kong, scenes of anarchy appear alive in 2019.

Demonstrators in Hong Kong were branded anarchists by The South China Morning Post after mobilising in the streets to fight for the rights of citizens.

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