We are running a little late but, as you can probably imagine, finding a place to hold an anarchist theory conference isn’t as easy as it used to be. In our case it is as much about aging as it is about the horrorshow of land pricing but either way we now have a venue. The Omni Commons will be hosting the 2016 Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory, And Research, & Development conference.
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Publicado en
Mother Earth Vol. 2. No. 3, Mayo de 1907
Traducción al castellano: rebeldealegre
I.
Benjamin R. Tucker ha publicado la primera traducción al inglés de “Der Einzige und sein Eigentum,” escrito en 1845 por el ingenioso pensador alemán Kaspar Schmidt bajo el seudónimo de Max Stirner. El libro ha sido traducido por Steven T. Byington, con la asistencia de Emma Heller Schumm y George Schumm. El Sr. Tucker, sin embargo, nos informa en su Prefacio al libro que “la responsabilidad por errores e imperfecciones especiales” descansa sobre sus hombros. Él es por lo tanto responsable también por la Introducción del fallecido Dr. J. L. Walker, cuya concepción estrecha de mente sobre Stirner es sugerente de una idolatría individualista.
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“Things here are tense but festive. The C.O. and warden was stabbed…It has nothing to do with overcrowding, but with the practice of locking folks up for profit, control and subjugation. Fires were set, we got control of two cubicles, bust windows. The riot team came, shot gas, locked down, searched the dorms. Five have been shipped and two put in lockup.”
– An inmate at Holman Correctional’
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The FBI conducted a three-year investigation, dubbed “Seizing Thunder,” into a animal-rights and environmental “terrorists” in the Pacific Northwest that devolved into widespread—and seemingly pointless—surveillance of activists for no apparent reason aside from the fact that they were anarchists, or protested the war in Iraq, or were “militant feminists.” Here’s the file.
I first came across the name “Seizing Thunder” several years ago while rifling through the FBI’s investigative files on the Animal Liberation Front. The ALF records obliquely referenced the evocatively named investigation, which I requested via the Freedom of Information Act just for kicks. Last month—after three years—the FBI returned nearly 500 pages (it held back 784).
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Monday night, approximately a dozen gathered in Minneapolis in solidarity with the anti-racists stabbed and arrested in Anaheim the week before when confronting the KKK. The following text was read and distributed around the area:
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