Digital/physical archive in infancy, focusing on anarchist activity in western Washington. Send your handbills, flyers, posters, zines, books, etc.
Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle, etc.
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On July 4, 1997, the Animal Liberation Front freed 4000 mink from the David Smith Mink Farm in Cle Elum, Washington. The farm did not survive this action.
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On July 3, 1921, the accursed snitch Donald Vose got spit on by Home, WA resident Gaston Lance at a community baseball game. This would be the last time that Vose attempted to visit the anarchist community before his comical death.
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ALT Gaston Lance, the hero of this story.
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On May 29, 1899, Emma Goldman spoke at the Germania hall in Seattle.
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On May 11, 1898 the first issue of Discontent: Mother of Progress was published at Home, Washington. Discontent was published weekly for four years, until it was suppressed by the US Post office for publishing “obscenity.”
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On May 8, 1903, anarchist William Dorenson was sent to the chain gang for 50 days for having praised Leon Czolgosz’s assassination of President William McKinley while drinking in the Pioneer saloon in Tacoma.
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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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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.”
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On April 13, 1890, anarchist/feminist/spiritualist Lois Waisbrooker delivered two lectures at Tacoma Hall, the first on “Modern Spiritualism”. This is the earliest evidence we can find of anarchist activity in our area.
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ALT Mrs. Lois Waisbrooker, an eminent authoress and lecturer, will address the public on the subject of “Modern Spiritualism,” in Tacoma Hall Sunday, at 11 A. M. She will likewise speak in the evening, on a topic to be announced at the morning meeting.
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On April 9, 1884, Seattle anarchist Louise Olivereau was born. In 1917, Olivereau mailed out 2000 letters, encouraging draft resistance. She was convicted of violating the Espionage Act, and sentenced to 10 years, though she was released after 28 months.
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On March 21, 1900, the first part of Henry Addis’ article on free love, “Talks With the Boys and Girls,” was published in Discontent: Mother of Progress. Discontent’s publisher, Charles Govan, was fined $75 for printing it.
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In March 1897, the first issue of Washington’s first anarchist periodical, The New Era, was published in Home, Washington. The paper would only make it a few issues before being suppressed by the US Post Office.
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On February 19, 1916, Feds tried to arrest Wm. C. Owen for “using the mails to incite murder, arson and treason” at Home, WA, for working with the Magons on their paper, Regeneración, but he'd fled to Tacoma. Owen made it back to England w/o arrest.
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ALT Federal officers here fail to find William C. Owen, indicted with Magon brothers in Los Angeles charged with using mails to invite murder and revolution.
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On February 10, 1896, three families founded the anarchist colony at Home on 26 acres. They had left a failed Bellamite colony, and decided that they would incorporate more individual autonomy into their model. The experiment lasted for about 20 years.
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On February 4, 1900, Johann Most refused to speak to an audience that he considered too small at the Germania Cafe in Seattle. The audience demanded he speak, and when he wouldn’t, they demanded their money back. Most however did speak to a reporter from the Seattle P-I. (1/2)
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On January 26, 1916, Donald Vose got beaten by anarchists in Tacoma for snitching to private detectives on the whereabouts of David Caplan and Matthew Schmidt, anarchists charged with supplying dynamite for the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building.
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On January 19, 1914, after ~3 years imprisonment, Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magon, Liberado Rivera, and Anselmo Figueroa were released from McNeil Island Penitentiary. That night a jollification and reconsecration meeting was held at the Eagles’ Hall in Tacoma in their honor.
ALT The four pictured here, with the addition of Praxedis Guerrero (second from the left)
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On January 12, 1912 the initial guilty verdict came down against Home, Washington’s anarchist editor and former bicycle tramp Jay Fox for publishing “The Nude and the Prudes” in an issue of his paper, The Agitator. Fox was sentenced to two months in jail.
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On December 14, 1908, with her reputation preceding her, Emma Goldman was arrested in Bellingham, Washington, before she could deliver a planned lecture. The next day, authorities sent her away on a Canada-bound train.
ALT EMMA GOLDMAN CAN’T TALK IN BELLINGHAM (By United Press.) BELLINGHAM, Dec. 14 Chief of Police Hi Cade announced Today that Emma Goldman cannot speak In Bellingham Tuesday night “I do not think she's a desirable personto lecture here” said Cade ‘and when she arrives I will tell her to please keep on moving along."
