Seattle

From The Nightly: UW's Anarchist Newspaper
May 11, 2024

After posting an article ever so lightly critiquing socialist organizing, we at The Nightly were shocked and dismayed to learn that people actually read The Nightly. We got several comments basically saying we were harming Palestinian liberation by questioning the means by which we achieve our ends. It’s a pretty glaring double standard, showing just how thoroughly organizing spaces have trained people to see authoritarian socialism as the default.

From The Transmetropolitan Review

In the interests of fostering physical media, the full pamphlet is print only.

From Puget Sound Anarchists

Dear friends, comrades, enemies and those to come.

By now I’m sure many of you have heard about the call for autonomous action to disrupt the defense summit in Seattle on the 12th. I want to urge you all from around the region to come out, and come out hard.

From Puget Sound Anarchists

A call was recently made by a coalition of leftist organizations in Seattle to mobilize to disrupt this conference on its opening day, Tuesday March 12th.

In my biased opinion, it was the best anarchist bookfair of all time in the history of the multiverses or, at the very least, my favorite so far.

Report the Back, wherein our heras brave the unknown, discover new and familiar faces, and dispense and receive tomes and witticisms

This report back is very partial as your guide did not themself attend any of the workshops, content to lurk behind books and zines, occasionally emerging only enough to thrust a text at someone who lingered too long or looked too inquisitive. Perhaps workshop goers will add their efforts in the comments below, so that we may all gain from their perspicacity.

Received via email

The Seattle Book Fair is on! Join us for two days of anarchist books, zines, and workshops; August 26th and 27th at the VERA Project.

The Seattle Anarchist Book Fair is an opportunity for old friends to come together or out of the woodwork, for new connections be made, and for those new to anarchy to have an opportunity to engage with the many and varied perspectives of what has been called the Beautiful Idea.

From CrimethInc.

22 Years after N30—What It Can Teach Us Today

Twenty-two years ago today, anarchists and other protesters successfully blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the dramatic debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, a global movement against neoliberal capitalism. Over the past few years, we have observed the twenty-year anniversaries of several of the high points of this movement. Today, we reflect on its origins and what it can teach contemporary movements.

from Puget Sound Anarchists

submitted anonymously

Stolen Duwamish Land, aka Seattle, witnessed six public marches on “Decentralized #MayDay” as well as smaller unpublicized actions.

From Puget Sound anarchists dot org

A Decentralized Callout

A year ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic first made itself felt, some anarchists on occupied Duwamish Territory (Seattle) put out calls for decentralized actions on May 1st, the fighting holiday of the working classes.