August 2023 Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin online
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 110-111, August 2023 [Double issue] has just been posted on our site.
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/34tp7t
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 110-111, August 2023 [Double issue] has just been posted on our site.
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/34tp7t
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.
from CrimethInc.
On Repression, Representation, and Revolt
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…
From CrimethInc.
Accounts from Three Weeks of Countrywide Revolt
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.