Louise Crowley Library

Digital/physical archive in infancy, focusing on anarchist activity in western Washington. Send your handbills, flyers, posters, zines, books, etc.

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We are attempting to preserve the digital and physical material culture of anarchists in the Salish Sea region of western Washington, a history spanning from the late 19th century to today.

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Added Jay Fox's eulogy for Voltairine de Cleyre to the texts section: https://t.co/RPjdAW8JjX

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A short documentary on the NWDC that anarchists made in 2008: https://t.co/N2VFa56aLv

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We added an article about the Northwest Detention Center, published in Autonomy//253, way back in 2011, while Obama was president.

https://t.co/1mSCX6ItTV

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Found three related flyers, two for noise demos at the detention center, one for an info night about it, all from 2010.

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@SecessioPlebiss It certainly *should* work!

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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.”

https://t.co/31zhh2epwM

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A former collective member of Seattle's Black Cat Cafe is looking for people to collaborate on a collective history of the project.

https://t.co/9gHBWHnyZW

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I just randomly remembered that in 1903 the state of Washington made it illegal to be an anarchist.

https://t.co/mrbA6101Ah

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The US government has always been a force for censorship.

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On July 26, 1915, after losing his appeal to the US Supreme Court, anarchist Jay Fox was taken into custody to serve his two month sentence for publishing matter “which shall tend to encourage or advocate disrespect of the law or for any court or courts of justice.” (1/2)

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Time is a spiral.

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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.

https://t.co/qJKjBwtewS

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Will try to scan to PDF and upload soon, in the meantime, the full texts can be read here: https://t.co/pR6SnZMBkg

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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.

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Full text is here: https://t.co/Tf73oChf9S

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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.

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

https://t.co/HsUP4M4ONb

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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.

https://t.co/qJKjBwtewS

[Louise Crowley Library @LCrowleyLibrary]

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.”

https://t.co/31zhh2epwM

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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.

https://t.co/JCGC2oSD3M

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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.

https://t.co/TDiuvljzKs

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The longer story of all the trials suffered by Home's publishers is here: https://t.co/q8ncB67Bys

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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.

https://t.co/31zhh2epwM