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Will Aaron Bushnell’s Death Trigger Anarchism Witch Hunt?

 This sign commemorates Aaron Bushnell, who self-immolated last week on behalf of Palestine, in Portland, Ore., on March 2, 2024. Photo: John Rudoff/Sipa via AP

From The Intercept By Ken Klippenstein

Sen. Tom Cotton demands the Pentagon root out leftist extremism.

Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington last month has provoked nationwide soul-searching about the war in Gaza. For the U.S. government though, the airman’s death excites a different kind of search: for so-called extremists, particularly left-wing ones.

Anarchists claim responsibility for parcel bomb attack against judge in Greece

Anarchists claim responsibility for parcel bomb attack against judge in Greece

From Independent UK, February 19, 2024

A parcel bomb was placed at a courthouse in Thessaloniki and addressed to the judge

An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for last week’s attempted bomb attack against a senior judge in Greece, raising fears of a resurgence of violence by radical militants.

The inspiring Spanish anarchist collectives: Look what we must do!

The inspiring Spanish anarchist collectives: Look what we must do!

From resilience dot org by Ted Trainer

We are entering can era of severe scarcity in which centralised and top-down systems will fail to provide for us and we will have to develop cooperative and self-sufficient localized economies. The achievements of the Spanish anarchist workers collectives in the 1930s show what miracles ordinary people can do.

'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.

billboards, geo-fencing campaigns in search of ‘anarchists’ against training center

Atlanta Police say billboards, geo-fencing campaigns planned in search of ‘anarchists’ against training center

From Rough Draft Atlanta

Hundreds of billboards and digital marketing campaigns are now part of a national effort to arrest and convict violent “anarchists” suspected of attacks against the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum.

Schierbaum said at a Wednesday morning press conference that more than 450 billboards will go up this week in Atlanta and other major cities including Miami, Nashville, and New York. The billboards will advertise rewards of up to $200,000 announced last month for information in finding arson suspects protesting the training center, also known as “Cop City.”

What Happened to David Graeber?

From Los Angeles Review of Books

I BOW TO few in my admiration for the anthropologist, economist, radical leader, and delightful prose stylist David Graeber, who died unexpectedly in 2020 at the age of 59. Since I read his little book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology in 2004, I’ve been telling anyone who seemed inclined to listen that he was the most important anarchist thinker since Peter Kropotkin, who died in 1921. His ideas, including those beautifully captured in his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), helped motivate and shape the Occupy movement, which took inspiration from his commitments to radical democracy, egalitarianism, and “prefigurative politics”—the idea that people seeking to make a revolution should try to live and organize now in a way they’d want to arrange their lives together in the future.

British poet and ‘anarchist’ Benjamin Zephaniah dies at 65

British poet and self-professed ‘anarchist’ Benjamin Zephaniah dies at age 65

From AP News

LONDON (AP) — Benjamin Zephaniah, a British poet, political activist and actor who drew huge inspiration from his Caribbean roots, has died. He was 65.

Zephaniah died Thursday after being diagnosed with a brain tumor eight weeks ago, his family said in a statement on Instagram.

Alfredo Maria Bonanno, ideologue of the anarcho-insurrectionists, has died

alfredo bonanno

From Domani (machine translation to English)

His name will not mean much to the general public, but for part of the variegated anarchist world, Alfredo Maria Bonanno was much more than a point of reference. He died this morning, Wednesday 6 December, in Trieste, he was 86 years old: the news gradually spread among friends and companions, informed by his wife. The comrades themselves remember him today for his rigor in searching for original texts by anarchist theorists and for the logic pursued in the discussions.

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