May the Fourth Be With You

On May 4, 2021 Tacoma anarchist Arthur J. Miller died. Miller was the publisher of the anarchist newspaper 'Bayou La Rose' for 26 years, as well as a key organizer for supporting imprisoned American Indian Movement member Leonard Peltier.

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On May 3, 1886, 16-year-old Jay Fox was shot in the finger by a Chicago cop, & watched another worker killed by the same bullet. He was present the next night as a bomb was thrown at a crowd of cops that was trying to break up the rally in the Haymarket.

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In May 1968, the economy of France was brought to a near halt by seven weeks of riots, strikes, and occupations of schools and factories. 1/2

Body cameras are a policing tool, not an accountability tool.

'Universities are not supposed to resemble dictatorships or Fortune 500 companies, irrespective of the size of their endowments.'

Too often people fail to understand 'it is' because of some kind of 'I think it should be.'

school is a factory that we all have seen
where people are produced as fodder for the work machine
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higher education, colleges and such
narrow us more, a finishing touch
mold people into robot managers who become the bosses we're produced to serve

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What They Mean When They Say Peace
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On April 30, 1902, following two trials for publishing obscenity, one of which ended in conviction for Lois Waisbrooker, the Home, Washington post office was disestablished, and the final issue of Discontent: Mother of Progress was published.

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if safety is a very high priority for you, we need you running media, logistics, food, cultural events, fundraisers, legal aid. we do *not* need you at the front lines.

On April 29, 1992, after seven days of deliberation, a jury acquitted 4 LAPD officers of excessive force charges in their beating of Rodney King. Immediately after, thousands of people took to the streets, rioting and looting in revenge, for six days, across dozens of cities. 1/2

'The University,Too, Must be Destroyed'

A brief collection of loosely connected thoughts on the importance of framing the university (American context) as an antagonist to be destroyed,

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To print: cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/…

'Taking Deals and Selling Out: NU Organizers Betray the Movement'

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Perlman's Worker-Student Action Committees still has much to offer.

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On 4/28/1919, amidst a wave of mail bombs intended by anarchists to be delivered on May 1, Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson's office received a bomb, which failed to go off. After, Hanson declared that the government should “buck up and hang or incarcerate for life all the anarchists.”

'Another troublesome manifestation of the politics of safety is an emphasis on personal comfort that supports police behavior in consensus-based groups or spaces.'—Jackie Wang, Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety

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It’s comical how often authoritarian communists’ rhetoric is indistinguishable from that of any other statist.

On April 27, 1898, Errico Malatesta’s trial for his role in a violent uprising in Ancona, Italy, ended. You can read his trial statement in our book Defiance: Anarchist Statements before Judge and Jury.