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TOTW: Dinner and a Movie

netflix and anarchy!

After some years thinking about this, it seems to me like most people enjoy dinner. I’ve also discovered that a lot of them tend to like pictures that move …moving pictures, “movies.” The social sciences suggest that human beings have been doing something like the two things together for a while. Creating and consuming food while creating and consuming passive entertainment. 

Asheville NC Police Vehicles Burned While Anarchist Book Fair Held in City

From Police Magazine
August 15, 2023

An investigation is underway after someone set two marked Asheville (NC) Police Department vehicles on fire early Monday, Aug. 14. The destroyed vehicles were not occupied at the time the attack.

During this time, an anarchist book fair was being hosted in Asheville, News 13 reports.

July 2023 By-Elections and Anarchy at the BBC #1

July 2023 By-Elections and Anarchy at the BBC #1

From Little | Bigger | Anarchism (Spotify link)

Original title: July 2023 By-Elections and Anarchy at the BBC #1: 'In Our Time' on Anarchism - July 2023

Exploring British politics from an anarchist perspective and discussing anarchist theory and practice with some awesome guests.

Anarchists upset Swiss train schedules

A large-scale meeting of international anarchists in Switzerland has disrupted the smooth running of the rail schedule by forcing the cancellation of several trains.

From swissinfo.ch
July 22, 2023

The sprawling five-day event involving thousands of anarchists has centered on the Swiss town of St Imier, but some participants have decided to camp too close for comfort to the railway tracks.

Slovenia: Police Attacked by Anarchists after Bookfair

Police Officer In His Criminal Complaint Against Anarchists: “I Was Tripped Up By A Stranger And Then Kicked Two Or Three Times By Another…”
By Ana Horvat, Nova24TV
July 14, 2023

After a horde of anarchists from the Balkan Anarchist Book Fair destroyed private property and assaulted and beat several police officers last Saturday, one of the police officers filed a verbal criminal charge against the attackers. The police officer, who will not be named due to the protection of personal data, stated in his verbal criminal complaint that he had been harmed, and the verbal criminal complaint is, in fact, a proposal for prosecution.

Review: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

Review: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture

From LSE Review of Books by Layla Saleh

Original title: Book Review: Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture by Kathy Ferguson

In Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print CultureKathy Ferguson considers the ways in which printers bolstered anarchist movements across the US and UK from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. More than just a means of spreading ideas, Ferguson posits printing, writing and reading as radical, creative acts essential to community-building within anarchist movements, writes Layla Saleh.

Ted Kaczynski dies at 81

From Washington Post

He knew none of his victims and struck unpredictably from coast to coast in seemingly random acts from 1978 to 1995, baffling law enforcement officers and gripping the country in a kind of menacing unease — until his capture in early 1996 in the remote mountains of Montana.

There, Ted Kaczynski, the scrawny, bearded anti-technology anarchist popularly known as the Unabomber, surrendered peaceably at the primitive plywood cabin he had called home for 25 years. He was escorted by federal agents through slushy snow down a backwoods road to the main highway and, ultimately, to prison for the rest of his life.

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