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Jacinto Lives! Memories from St. Louis

from Kate Sharpley Library
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c2fsjs

This week we discovered sad news. Jacinto Barrera Bassols, anarchist, historian, and friend, had died in July of Covid-19 at age 65. We spent only a handful of days with this funny, inquisitive, warm-hearted man. He defied all our stereotypes of an academic historian, and left a deep impression on us.

“Touch the Sky” Film Now Online

Touch the Sky: Stories, Subversions, & Complexities of Ferguson

For the upcoming 6th anniversary of the Ferguson police killing of Mike Brown and the ensuing riots, we are announcing the free online release of...

A video collage reflecting on the raw moments of the 2014 Ferguson riots. A film for the wild ones, the anarchists, and the dreamers…

St. Louis: Anarchists visit CEO’s home in solidarity with wildcat strikers in Mexico

On April 30, we visited the mansion of David Webster, CEO of St. Louis-based Electrical Components International. Here is the message sent to striking ECI factory workers in Juarez, Mexico, followed by the letter handed to the CEO’s son outside the mansion:

Hello friends!
We read of your tragedies and your struggles in the ECI maquiladora of Juarez. Because we could not magically create an overnight strike wave here in St. Louis, we instead decided to express our solidarity with a visit to the home of ECI’s CEO, David Webster.

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