Louise Crowley Library

Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements Red Rosia and Black Maria Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements 1971 The Anarcho-Feminist Manifesto was written by Chicago Anarcho-Feminists. Blood of the Flower...

Will try to scan to PDF and upload soon, in the meantime, the full texts can be read here: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/red-...

Just got a hard copy of Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements, published by the Seattle branch of the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation in the early 1970s.

Henry Addis, "Essays on the Social Problem" (1898) - The Libertarian Labyrinth Henry Addis was an anarchist-communist, a co-editor of the Portland Firebrand, and a contributor to several of the anarchist papers published in the western United States. In this collection, part of ...

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Just got a copy of Home resident Henry Addis' pamphlet "Essays on the Social Problem," published by Free Society out of San Francisco (formerly Portland) in June, 1898.

On May 29, 1899, Emma Goldman spoke at the Germania hall in Seattle.

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Floyd Turner (L) and Stan Iverson (R) in front of the ID bookstore in Seattle's University District.

On May 12, 1967, Seattle anarchist Stan Iverson burned an American flag in Seattle. Despite Iverson admitting that he burned the flag, Floyd Turner was convicted of it and served 45 days before being released on bond and acquitted by the WA Supreme Court.

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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.

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, and watched another worker killed by the same bullet. He would be present the next night as a bomb was thrown into a crowd of police that was trying to break up the rally in the Haymarket.

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The longer story of all the trials suffered by Home's publishers is here: louisecrowleylibrary.org/obscenity

Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock (and his followers) was one of the more significant opponents that US anarchists faced in that era.

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.”

[archivist’s note: If you have access to the reportback “Short reflection on what led to Olympia Anarchist Convergence ‘not-happening’” please let us know]

On April 20, 2013, the Olympia Anarchist Convergence began at Evergreen State College, but was moved to a different location after a hostile blogger had his camera smashed.

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Tacoma anarchist Andrew Klemencic had it right.

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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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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 April 1, 1969, Morningtown Pizza opened in Seattle’s University District. Collectively-owned and operated by many Seattle anarchists, Morningtown operated until 1993.

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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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Anarchism In America (1983) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive pooh pooh yeah

The film: archive.org/details/Anar...

On March 15, 1984, the documentary “Anarchism in America” was screened at Seattle’s New City Theatre (11th and Olive).

Obscenity at Home: The Trials of an Anarchist Community on Puget Sound — Louise Crowley Library This pamphlet tells the stories of the trials that anarchist publishers were subjected to in the early 1900s at Home , Washington. Included is the four essays that so offended some in the government ...

You can read about all of the trials that newspaper editors from Home, WA endured in our pamphlet Obscenity at Home: The Trials of an Anarchist Community on Puget Sound. (2/2)

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On March 11, 1902, the anarchist editor of Discontent: Mother of Progress, and author James W. Adams, were tried for “depositing lewd, lascivious and obscene matter in the mails”, due to Adams’ article “A Healthy Comparison.”

On March 11, 1903 the first issue of The Demonstrator was published at Home, WA. After the de facto suppression of Home’s previous paper, Discontent, James F. Morton Jr. started the new paper, which ran for 142 issues, all of which can be read in our archive.

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On March 11, 1963, Seattle anarchist Louise Olivereau died. Olivereau had served more than two years in prison for advocating draft resistance during World War I.

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On March 7, 1903, Washington state’s “Criminal Anarchy” law was signed by the governor. The law criminalized advocating anarchism until its repeal in 1999.

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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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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.

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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On February 18, 1915, anarchist David Caplan was arrested on Bainbridge Island and charged with supplying the dynamite used in the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building.

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